This post was updated April 8 at 8:00 p.m.
As purple mountain majesties become overrun with litter and biodiversity disappears from sea to shining sea, President Donald Trump’s attack on the National Park Service in alignment with his vision of “efficiency” only diminishes America’s beauty.

This post was updated March 30 at 9:57 p.m.
Last month, the Trump administration announced it would choose which news outlets had access to the White House press pool – a move that upended over a century of precedent and marked yet another push for executive control by President Donald Trump.

Police shot students in the head with rubber bullets. Administrators allowed counter-protesters to beat students with poles and spray them with bear mace for hours before intervening.

This post was updated Feb. 23 at 9:08 p.m. 
Scientists in the United States have collected more Nobel Prizes than the rest of the world combined over the past five years.

More news reports roll in every day about the intense state-sanctioned persecution and criminalization that people without legal status face in the United States.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning a sweep targeting undocumented people in Los Angeles in the next month, according to a leaked agency document reviewed by the LA Times.

This post was updated Jan. 12 at 11 p.m.
Fires raging across Los Angeles County have revealed UCLA’s lack of readiness and misaligned priorities, leaving students in the dark and forced to find help outside Westwood during the crisis at hand. 
On Tuesday, Jan.

This post was updated Nov. 24 at 7:34 p.m.
America has reelected Donald Trump as the president of the United States, welcoming its slide toward fascism with open arms.

We stand on the precipice.
In under 72 hours, Nov. 5 will mark the climax of perhaps the most intense and historic presidential campaign season in recent memory.

This post was updated Oct. 22 at 8:42 p.m.
The right to protest is perhaps more valuable and more fundamental to the principles of our society than any other.

This post was updated Sept. 29 at 9:35 p.m.
Like any other Olympic athlete, Team USA gymnast Jordan Chiles has worked her whole life to place on the podium of the world’s most elite sporting event.