Days before school started, I was sitting in enemy territory on the USC school grounds wearing a sign that read “Hunger for Higher Access to Education.” As a participant in a campaign to bring the DREAM Act to our politicians’ attention, I was fasting for a week. Read more...

A clandestine information war is being waged across the Internet, and your computer is on the front lines. Spyware is trying to get at your personal information, and running isn’t an option. Read more...

Read more...

Correction appended Bush makes startling comeback in second debate Contrary to all expectations, President George W. Bush showed in the second debate that he was indeed a forward-looking leader capable of rethinking old positions and accepting change when necessary. Read more...

This November, voters will choose whether to retain California’s three-strikes law. Reasonable minds may differ about whether three strikes should be amended, but one thing is clear ““ Proposition 66 is a public-safety nightmare that would gut the law and free thousands of prisoners. Read more...

As a proponent of Proposition 66 and vice chairman of Citizens Against Violent Crime, I am very familiar with the problems created by the current three-strikes law. Read more...

When you were little, your parents told you not to talk to strangers. And not to take candy from them. Perhaps this is the reason why so many urban dwellers avoid all possible contact with strangers. Read more...