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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Hillary Clinton On SNL: What The Polls (And Republicans) Are Saying

Comments (0) | America, Comedy, democrat, hillary clinton, Kate McKinnon, NBC, opinion, politics, Politics, poll, presidential race, Republican, SNL, United States

Screenshot from YouTube video of SNL sketch.

Paige Parker
Contributor

Her YouTube hits may be on the rise, but what of her favorability numbers?

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Shortcomings Of The Foster Care System

Comments (2) | child welfare, foster care agencies, foster care system, foster youth, government officials, L.A. County, Lucci quadruplets, Media, mental abuse, Opinion, physical abuse, poverty, Sexual Abuse, Subsidies, substance addiction, taxpayer dollars, United States

(Fran Polito/Getty Images)

Marina Peña
Columnist

The foster care system needs more attention from the media. 

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

No-Vacation Nation: Does The U.S. Government Care About American Employees?

Comments (0) | Americans, Argentina, businesses, Capitalism, Congress, conservatives, corporations, Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, Democrats, Depression, economy, employers, european union, fair labor standards act, families, Families and Work Institute, FullContact, Health, jobs, low wages, Luxembourg, mental health, Opinion, paid time off, productivity levels, social issues, socialism, summer, sweden, switzerland, The Great Recession, The Motley Fool, The Paid Vacation Act, United States, vacation, wages

(Jordan Siemens/Getty Images)

Marina Peña
Contributor

The U.S.'s culture of worker exhaustion is unsustainable.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Can Technology Revolutionize Our Political System?

Comments (0) | #NiUnaMenos protests, Arab spring, Argentina, Barcelona, Boston, buenos aires, city officials, congressional elections, DemocraciaOS political scientists, democracy, DemocracyOS, digital technology, government, hungary, Internet, Mexico, millennial, Nation and World, new york, non-profit, occupy movement, Partido de la Red, Pia Mancini, Police Brutality, political parties, politics, Presidential Elections, private sector, Protests, San Francisco, Santiago Siri, start up, Technology, Tunisia, United States, voter turnout, World Economic Forum, Y Combinator

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Marina Peña
Contributor

Open-forum online debates are drawing disillusioned voters back into political awareness. 

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

South L.A. Man's Fight Against Homelessness Highlights Deficits In Affordable Housing

Comments (0) | affordable housing, children, city council, Downtown LA, Elvis Summers, families, gofundme, homeless, Homelessness, Irene McGhee, jobs, la county, Los Angeles, los angeles times, marginalization, mayor, mental illness, officials, Opinion, opinion, poverty, Skid Row, social issues, South LA, Substance Abuse, unemployment, United States, Venice

Irene McGhee, "Smokie", and I in front of her mobile home. (Omar Peña)

Marina Peña
Columnist

Why do our elected leaders continue to ignore the needs of the homeless? 

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

#NiUnaMenos Demonstrations Underscore Argentine Government's Inaction Against Gender-Based Violence

Comments (1) | #NiUnaMenos, Argentina, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Chile, demonstrations, domestic abuse, domestic assault, domestic violence, femicide, feminism, Girls, government, Karen Ingala Smith, Latin America, Lionel Messi, march, Mexico, murder rates, officials, Opinion, politics, protest, social issues, social media, Twitter, UK, United States, Uruguay, Violence Policy Center, women

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Marina Peña
Contributor

Popular demonstrations demand action from the government, which has largely ignored the country's epidemic violence against women.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Remembering April 30, 1975

Comments (0) | 1975, Apocalypse Now, april 30, black April, cambodia, culture, diaspora, Education, Full Metal Jacket, history, history books, Laos, military industrial complex, model minority, movies, Opinion, prostitute, refugee camps, Saigon, southeast asia, television, the things they carried, Trauma, United States, Vietnam, vietnamese, war, world

Quyen Nguyen-Le
Contributor

In the United States, “Vietnam” is taught to us not as a country with people, culture, and history, but as a War.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

An Eye On The Troubles Facing Latin America

Comments (1) | Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico, Nicolas Maduro, nixon, Obama, Opinion, Protests, social unrest, United States, Venezuela

Marina Peña
Contributor

Thirty-four of the world's 50 most violent cities are located in Latin America.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

President Creates Sanctions Against Cyber Hackers

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The new order aspires to increase the government’s ability to report cyber incidents (Pete Souza/Wikimedia Commons)

Amanda Scurlock
Web Producer

Obama declared Cyberattacks to be a "national emergancy" and created a plan to stop them.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

UPDATE: Jacob Fadley Is Enlisted Member Of Military

Comments (0) | army, broadcast non-commission officer, expo line, Expo Line Crash, First Lt. Sam Atkins, Iraq, Jacob Fadley, kuwait, Los Angeles, Military, navy, Ohio National Guard, saturday, staff sgt., United States

Jacob Fadley (Jacob Fadley/Facebook)

Max Schwartz
Civic Center Bureau Chief

The driver of the car involved in the Metro crash is in the Ohio National Guard.

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