UC Berkeley students celebrate election results on Sproul
UC Berkeley students celebrate election results on Sproul. They watched the results live on a large projector.
Election 2012: National and state races
Biggest Mistakes of Election 2012
Looking back on another tumultuous election season filled with countless political missteps, the Daily Cal’s opinion writers share their views on a few of the most significant blunders. 1. Rape Remarks During this last election season, a lot of ideas about rape and abortion were thrown around by politicians, the Read More…
Guantanamo: Taking no prisoners
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Inspiring Berkeley alums remind us that graduating doesn’t suck
It’s that time of the semester once again. Preparation for our last midterms and finals hasn’t necessarily started, but many of us know that it should have. While readings pile up and papers loom in the not so far off distance, we watch that last season of Mad Men that’s Read More…
Campaign slogans and the ASUC election
Spring is an exciting time for politics at Cal. We’re sure you’ve noticed the energy and aggression of campaigners on Sproul over the past few weeks, not to mention some of the more interesting campaign gimmicks meant to grab your attention. However, we were surprised (and disappointed) at the lack Read More…
President Obama picks Cal women’s basketball to advance to Final Four
When Cal women’s basketball coach Lindsay Gottlieb, who graduated from Brown with a political science degree, heard President Barack Obama picked her team to go to the Final Four, she knew she had to call her dad. “I said, ‘Sorry, it’s late but I want to tell you something,” Gottlieb Read More…
The Commander-in-Chief champions Cal basketball
As we descend into the month of madness, we can only fill out our brackets and hope that our basketball teams defy the seemingly insurmountable odds and beat the myriad of teams with the same heightened aspirations. However, one of our teams is not without official support. Barack Obama – Read More…
Imagining a sane GOP
The Devil's Advocate
The Republican Party’s best possible argument against government intervention in the economy is that it has negative unintended consequences — in particular, that it harms the vulnerable. Of course, this isn’t usually the case — government programs, from Pell Grants to food stamps, have helped expand opportunity and lift millions Read More…
Symptoms of sequestration
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: If Congress fails to take prompt action, the UC system and the people of California will suffer as a result of sequestration.
Here is a glimpse of the austere world California is plunging into if Congress fails to get its act together soon: The state could lose as much as $795,000 in funding for assistance to domestic violence victims, about $87.6 million for primary and secondary education will be lost, around 9,600 Read More…