With the U.S. government's recent interest in health-care reform, calorie counting has gone beyond the habits of the Real Housewives and is now an issue of national concern. The Labeling Education and Nutrition Act of 2009 aims to reduce the problems of obesity and associated medical conditions by mandating that restaurants provide nutritional information on their menus. Read more...

Media bias on both sides of the political spectrum was highlighted most recently during the 2008 election, with accusations of favoritism and leniency toward both parties. Read more...

For those who dislike standardized tests, perhaps the UC Board of Regents' latest decision regarding undergraduate admissions is long overdue. Read more...

Repudiation of violence laudable In her column “Animal rights activists need to temper radical action and reconsider their objectives” (Aug. 17), Avni Nijhawan makes the case that extremists, ostensibly in support of animal rights, have sullied the reputations of both the animal welfare and vegetarian movements by engaging in criminal “direct action” to achieve their ends. Read more...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of perhaps two of the most referenced events of the 1960s: the Manson Family killings in Los Angeles and Woodstock. Both have been reflected as the actions of out of control youth in a decade marked by cultural upheaval. Read more...

If you eat meat, buy animal products or do animal testing, beware: You're at risk for being bombarded by fake blood, flour bombs or even fire. Last week, People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals gave an unsuspecting group of children eating at McDonald's "unhappy meals" filled with rubber chickens dyed with fake blood, meant to criticize the chain's chicken-killing practices. Last quarter, the Animal Liberation Front took credit for firebombing UCLA researchers' vehicles, responding to UCLA's animal testing practices. Last year, Lindsay Lohan was hit by PETA's flour bombs because she wears fur. Read more...