This post was updated April 10 at 7:14 p.m.
“Uncomfortable Conversations” is a series by Kirsten Brehmer exploring a broad range of topics that are hard to talk about, often go unspoken and need a space to be heard.

This post was updated April 8 at 8:00 p.m.
As purple mountain majesties become overrun with litter and biodiversity disappears from sea to shining sea, President Donald Trump’s attack on the National Park Service in alignment with his vision of “efficiency” only diminishes America’s beauty.

This post was updated April 3rd at 9:36 p.m.
Editor’s note: The views expressed in this op-ed are those of the author’s alone and are not the official positions of UCLA, the campus, or any academic unit, department or program at UCLA.

This post was updated April 3rd at 9:30 p.m.
My phone lit up with a notification.
“Is there anything I should take from your room?”
This is the text I received from my mom as she tried to pack our lives out of the house my family has lived in since 1996 into four duffel bags.

This post was updated March 30 at 9:57 p.m.
Last month, the Trump administration announced it would choose which news outlets had access to the White House press pool – a move that upended over a century of precedent and marked yet another push for executive control by President Donald Trump.

This post was updated March 12 at 7:50 p.m.
Undocumented people living in the United States are denied their basic right to health care each and every day, with only a few states choosing to expand coverage to this community.

Police shot students in the head with rubber bullets. Administrators allowed counter-protesters to beat students with poles and spray them with bear mace for hours before intervening.