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All content by Benjamin Clabault
(Sahar Kassab, right, speaks to a reporter off camera next to her husband Basel Awarek, center, and daughter Laila Awarek, left. They are refugees from Homs, Syria. John Gastaldo/San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

The refugee crisis and American accountability

By Benjamin Clabault
April 11, 2016
(Kevin Gill/Flickr)

Climate change should be number one issue in elections

By Benjamin Clabault
March 28, 2016
(Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/TNS)

The effects of a Trump presidency

By Benjamin Clabault
March 7, 2016
(Arnie Papp/Flickr)

Music is still a tool for social change

By Benjamin Clabault
February 22, 2016
Tribune News Service

Sanders’ campaign: more than policy

By Benjamin Clabault
February 8, 2016
Phil Roeder/Flickr

The demise of the two-party system

By Benjamin Clabault
January 25, 2016
(Cade Belisle/ Daily Collegian)

Let love inform our politics this election season

By Benjamin Clabault
January 20, 2016
(Rasande Tyskar/ Flickr)

In wake of Paris attacks, US should not ditch compassion

By Benjamin Clabault
November 24, 2015
(Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

The cyclical path of increasing incarceration

By Benjamin Clabault
November 9, 2015
Cade Belisle/Daily Collegian

Clabault: Let’s legalize pot, and “magic mushrooms” while we’re at it

By Benjamin Clabault
October 26, 2015
GabboT/Flickr

No legitimacy in pop music

By Benjamin Clabault
October 13, 2015
Catholic Church England and Wales/Flickr

We can’t end capitalism, but we can change

By Benjamin Clabault
September 28, 2015
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a Tea Party rally against the international nuclear agreement with Iran outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Donald Trump’s immoral America

By Benjamin Clabault
September 14, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the Brunch with Bernie event at the National Nurses United office in Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 10, 2015. (Aric Crabb/MCT)

Young Americans willing to give socialist candidate a chance

By Benjamin Clabault
September 8, 2015
A silent march in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, to honor those who died during three days of attacks in Paris. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Islamic nations key to fighting terror

By Benjamin Clabault
January 11, 2015
(Christina Yacono/Daily Collegian)

Matching the drinking age to morals

By Benjamin Clabault
December 2, 2014

Morality must counteract corrupt politics

By Benjamin Clabault
November 17, 2014
(Cade Belisle/Daily Collegian)

Partisan political system is inaccurate and counterproductive

By Benjamin Clabault
November 3, 2014

‘Columbus Day’ demonstrates ignorant view of the past

By Benjamin Clabault
October 20, 2014

The fight against climate change must be powered by the people

By Benjamin Clabault
October 6, 2014
(Michell Prothero/MCT)

To fight ISIS, US must understand them, not chalk up actions to pure evil

By Benjamin Clabault
September 17, 2014
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