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A moderate’s case for Xavier Becerra on crime, housing, and the practical work of governing. Image Credit: Gage Skidmore / Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Every election is a choice, and this November, Californians have a particularly important one to make. After years of frustration over housing costs, taxes, homelessness and public safety, voters will decide between Xavier Becerra, the former California Attorney General and U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, and Steve Hi

5C activists should not negotiate with terrorists. Image credit: Chloe Ellingson for The New York Times, Abdou's Substack End Times, Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Today, on the the third anniversary of the October 7th massacre, the Claremont Colleges People’s Fund — an unregistered mutual aid group — invited Dr. Mohamed Abdou, a self-described “Muslim anarchist” fired from his position at Columbia University after expressing that he was “with the muqawamah [the resistance] be it H

Housing and transit policy afficianodo Nicholas Steinman responds to a "defense of the suburbs." This article originally appeared in The Student Life (TSL) on Oct. 2. TSL production editor Nicholas Steinman writes in response to Arjun Vohra's article, "In Defense of the Suburbs," first published on Sept. 24 in the Claremont Independent. Image credit: Melinda Qerushi / The Student Life Last week, I read an op-ed in the Claremont Independent (CI) titled “In Defense of the Subu

This Constitution Day, we need to reaffirm a politics of civic virtue Image credit: Jasper Langley-Hawthorne Both the right and left agree that individual conduct is essential to the success of the public enterprise. On the left, personal responsibility is lauded in the fight against climate change: One must be the caretaker of their own carbon footprint by recycling, composting, and thrifting. On the right, one’s choice to marry and start a family are treated with equal reve

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