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1 week ago | 
dailytrojan.com | Janette Fu |Dor Peretz
The United States hits the ball to China: 104% tariffs. China hits back: 125% tariffs. The U.S. retaliates: 145% tariffs. The trade war has felt like a game of ping pong the past few days. “Liberation Day” meant imposing tariffs on 90 nations. Because of that, experts are predicting that a recession will occur. Stock values are volatile. Consumer sentiment is plunging, even lower than what was seen during the Great Recession.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailytrojan.com | Janette Fu |Dor Peretz
Back in 2022, electric car manufacturer Tesla was dropped from the S&P 500 Environmental, Social, and Governance Index. Tesla’s lack of a low-carbon strategy and reports of racism and poor working conditions at its Fremont, California factory affected its score. However, believe it or not, unlike Tesla, oil and gas company ExxonMobil is still included, which can feel counterintuitive. As it turns out, ESG has become a buzzword with good intentions but shaky execution.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Maria Paula Laguna |María F. Laguna
“The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself … For days one could drive the Harbor Freeway and see the city on fire, just as we had always known it would be in the end. Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse,” says Joan Didion in her novel “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.”With L.A. County covered in flames since Jan.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Antonio Wu
In wake of the recent election, news of Donald Trump’s picks for cabinet and senior staff has been trickling in over the past few weeks. Among these picks is Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Energy, Chris Wright. As The New York Times reported, Wright has expressly denied the climate crisis as well as shifting energy goals.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Solange Aguero
With the end of 2024 nearing, it is almost that time of year again: the peak of the college admissions process. If last year’s admission cycle is any indication, over one million prospective students are anxiously adding last touches to their Common App applications or stressing about looming decisions from the colleges they applied to early.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Antonio Wu
Content warning: this article contains references to sexual assault and violence. It practically goes without saying that sexual violence is a problem on college campuses. Across all genders, 18- to 24-year olds are at a higher risk of experiencing sexual violence than any other adult age demographic in the general population.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
besoccer.com | Dor Peretz
BeSoccer 25 minutes ago | Reading time: minutes Israel captain Dor Peretz says "it's very difficult" to focus on football with his country at war. Peretz was speaking on Wednesday on the eve of Israel's Nations League 'home' tie with France in Budapest. "You can't imagine how difficult the situation is, when our soldiers are defending our country, when there are still hostages," the 29-year-old midfielder said.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Antonio Wu
Under the record-breaking heat wave that recently passed over Los Angeles, residents came face to face with the implications of climate change and what the future might hold as the crisis increases the likelihood of longer-lasting extreme heat conditions. While many areas of the planet are heating up, other extreme weather patterns also appear throughout the United States and worldwide.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Kate Mcquarrie
With the new school year, I’m sure many of us are excited but mourning summer’s end. A major player in many of our latest summer fun was the Paris Olympics. The Games provided a time for celebration, whether for our home countries’ wins, emergent memes like “Pommel Horse Guy” or USC’s very own Trojan athletes — who took home 15 medals. And while 2028 may seem far away, the Los Angeles Olympics are sure to soon hit even closer to our USC home.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
dailytrojan.com | Dor Peretz |Kate Mcquarrie
For the past few months I have used the phrase “I’m just a girl” or “you’re just a girl” with my friends — probably a little too often — to jokingly excuse some action of mine or theirs. While doing so, I, like many other women and girls who have also adopted the “just a girl” trend, unknowingly became a culprit of infringing on feminism. Popular examples of the trend demonstrate the joke’s damaging consequences.
