Dan Schnur is a political communications strategist and the director of the University of Southern California’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. Before participating in a panel panel on the effects that redistricting will have on California, he sat down and took questions in our Green Room…
by Cécile Hoareau
With California so low on cash, you’d think we’d be trying to find more out-of-state buyers for our goods and services. But we’ve largely overlooked one of the most obvious boosts we could be making to our exports: college educations for foreign students…
by Sabrina Siddiqui
How does one prepare for Ramadan? If you had asked me a few weeks ago I would not have said through an online seminar.
But my cousin, much younger and cooler than I, sent me an invite on Facebook entitled, “Ramadan Prep Course: How to Control Your Nafs.” Nafs is the Arabic word for psyche or ego. During the month of Ramadan, which starts at the beginning of August this year, Muslims around the world will spend 30 days trying to control their wants and desires. They will wake up at dawn to eat breakfast, spending the rest of the daylight hours abstaining from food and drink…
I dumped half the contents of my backpack, and I’m speed-walking (well, you know…) my way to Washington, DC. I’ve fallen behind schedule, and I’m trying to make up time.
“Walk” I say to myself. “Don’t take your phone out to take a picture of that tree. Walk. Stop tweeting. You can hold it ’til the next restroom. Just walk.” …
It could be that I’ve had a run of incredibly good luck. Since setting off three weeks ago to walk across the United States, I’ve encountered generosity that has been nothing short of surprising. It caught me particularly off guard as I traveled through New Jersey, where I came across what a church showed me to be “radical hospitality.” …
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