Floridians are currently serving outdated sentences under defunct drug laws, even as those rules have changed. As lawmakers start to undo the damage done by mass incarceration, we should give justice to those stuck behind bars. It is time to bring our criminal justice system up to date. In the […]

On Jan. 13, thousands of Florida teachers and school employees took to the streets of Tallahassee to march for better working and teaching conditions. The march, organized by the Florida Education Association, comes on the heels of long-standing difficulties in recruiting and retaining qualified teachers in the Sunshine State. At […]

After banning transgender soldiers from joining the military and targeting civil rights protections in the Supreme Court, U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) citizens continue to escalate unnoticed. Due to the turmoil of the impeachment vote in December and increasing tensions with Iran […]

As national debates on healthcare policy play out, several states have quietly refused an easy opportunity to bring healthcare access to millions of people: expanding the Medicaid program. By choosing not to expand Medicaid, state legislatures across the U.S. leave young people without access to vital services. Medicaid, a government […]

On Nov. 13, the Orlando Sentinel published a bombshell finding about Florida’s corporate tax system: all told, only 1 percent of all corporations in the state paid any income tax in 2018. According to data from the Florida Division of Corporations and the Florida Department of Revenue, there are about […]

A USF student was recently charged for on-campus housing despite never living in a dorm on campus this semester. Melissa Moreno, a freshman chemistry major, was notified in August that she owed the university $3,750 for an on-campus dorm room that she never intended to live in, according to a […]

Michael Murphy, the student body president of UF, is currently facing impeachment because of alleged coordination with President Trump’s re-election campaign in which tuition money was spent on an October campus visit from Donald Trump Jr. as a part of his book tour. The university paid a collective $50,000 to […]

For the past four months, USF’s graduate assistants (GAs) have been circulating an online petition demanding “a living wage, vision and dental insurance and paid parental leave.” The petition, which is just shy of 1,000 signatures, was created by USF Graduate Assistants United (GAU) — the union representing USF’s GAs. […]

After spreading like wildfire on social media, the phrase “OK boomer” has become young people’s favorite response to the old and outdated. Taylor Lorenz, writer for the New York Times, described the phrase as retaliation against years of millennial bashing, in which America’s youth has been generalized as irresponsible, narcissistic […]

This past Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether to allow the Trump administration to take away protections for nearly 700,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an executive order implemented by the Obama administration that gave those […]