Tag: opinion
Opinion: I love California and California loves me
I’m from the south side of Minneapolis, a tight-knit community within a big, sprawling city. Or what I thought was a big, sprawling city...
Opinion: I’m still watching Lahaina burn. Are you?
Just a month after the nation’s deadliest wildfire that left at least 115 people dead, residents of Lahaina, Maui and families across Hawaiʻi, including...
Lessons Learned: How to get used to men, or not?
I don’t think I realized that my seven years of all-girls school had impacted me in any formative or traumatic way until I stepped...
Opinion: Did you see the strikeout heard ’round the world?
The greatest two-way baseball player to walk the planet struck out the best hitter in our country March 21. The world was watching — were you? Baseball might be America’s pastime,...
Opinion: How a 20-foot container, and a few laws, changed the...
Your clothes were probably made in Bangladesh, and your shoes in Vietnam. Your phone was probably assembled in China, and its processor was probably...
Lessons Learned: The goal in rugby is to have each other’s...
Loving, chaotic and dedicated. Three words I would use to describe my college rugby team. I’ve always been one for close contact, but never contact...
Opinion: LA should take bolder, more concrete steps to fix its...
LA might be considered a global city, but it is facing concurrent, overlapping problems and has been since before the COVID-19 pandemic. Falling transit ridership, rising...
Opinion: Love, allegedly — the commodification of the most romantic day
For many, the first two weeks of February are full of promise and love. For others, it’s a time full of bitterness and resentment....
Opinion: Beyoncé’s ‘Renaissance’ was MY album of the year
Growing up, I didn’t care about the Grammy Awards. I watched the broadcast and found it entertaining, but I wasn't invested. This year I was. As...
Opinion: When our hearts go numb, we must inflame them with...
“The pen is mightier than the sword,” Edward Bulwer-Lytton brilliantly wrote in 1839. Of course, it is empowering to believe that words can triumph...









































