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How to Make Sense of Affirmative Action in UC Admissions
How to Make Sense of Affirmative Action in UC Admissions
Is affirmative action “the enemy of white people who are contractors and Americans of Asian descent who are trying to get into the University of California at Berkeley,” as one influential critic call ...
16 Sep, 2020
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San Diego Man Killed by Border Agents Remembered at Chicano Park
San Diego Man Killed by Border Agents Remembered at Chicano Park
This is an independent opinion. Have one of your own? Write it! Email it to hoa@ivn.us. At San Diego’s iconic Chicano Park in the Barrio Logan neighborhood, a group of artists, led by renown ...
15 Sep, 2020
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4 min read
National Reformers Spotlight 9 Efforts to Give All Voters an Equal Vote in Elections
National Reformers Spotlight 9 Efforts to Give All Voters an Equal Vote in Elections
With Labor Day in the rearview mirror, campaigns across the country are ramping up their activities the best they can in the final eight weeks of a pandemic-affected election. This includes several ca ...
09 Sep, 2020
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7 min read
California Elections 2020: Proposition 16 - Affirmative Action
California Elections 2020: Proposition 16 - Affirmative Action
What is Proposition 16?Proposition 16 is a constitutional amendment that would repeal Proposition 209, passed in 1996, from the California Constitution. Proposition 209 stated that discrimination and ...
06 Sep, 2020
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6 min read
Trump Administration Is Intentionally Slowing Border Traffic; Will Tolls Be Next?
Trump Administration Is Intentionally Slowing Border Traffic; Will Tolls Be Next?
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. The weekend of Aug. 22-23 was the busiest Tijuana to San Diego border crossing in living memory. There wer ...
28 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
Migrant Students Work in Fields During COVID School Closures | CalMatters
Migrant Students Work in Fields During COVID School Closures | CalMatters
Sisters Maria and Jennifer Salvador start their days before the sun. The Southern California teenagers report to work at an Oxnard strawberry farm with one goal: To harvest as many bright red strawber ...
14 Aug, 2020
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8 min read
Today’s Grapes of Wrath Descendants: The Insecure Future is Now
Today’s Grapes of Wrath Descendants: The Insecure Future is Now
This is an independent opinion. Want to respond? Write your own commentary! Email hoa@ivn.us. John Steinbeck’s 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and film by the same name, “The Grapes of Wrath,” is co ...
13 Aug, 2020
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4 min read
The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl
The 18th-Century Reason Biden's VP Pick Should Be a Night Owl
If Joe Biden were to ask the framers of the constitution what qualities he should look for in a running mate, they might single out one in particular: a love of lucubration.  It literally means w ...
06 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
These 24 States Have Already Made Voting Easier in 2020
Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum and has been republished on IVN with permission from the publisher.‍With fewer than a hundred days to the presidential election, almost h ...
03 Aug, 2020
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3 min read
Ranked Choice Voting in Presidential Primaries: Higher Turnout, More Choice, Greater Confidence
Ranked Choice Voting in Presidential Primaries: Higher Turnout, More Choice, Greater Confidence
‍The nonpartisan reform group FairVote released a new report Wednesday that examines the impact ranked choice voting had on the 4 Democratic presidential primaries and caucus that used ranked choice v ...
23 Jul, 2020
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2 min read