EDWARD J. McCAFFERY, professor of law, Gould School of Law.
This op-ed originally appeared at CNN on April 9.
So, you think you have it bad this tax season. Have you heard that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will pay between $1 billion and $2 billion in taxes? That sounds like a tough pill for anyone to swallow.
But it is premature to start a pity party for Zuckerberg. The twenty-something billionaire reaped large financial gains from exercising the stock options that...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, chairman of USC's Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy.
This op-ed originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times on April 8.
I will always remember the day I woke to the news that more than 2,000 fires were burning in California. I thought I must not have heard correctly. Two thousand fires? How could that be?
In the end, the state's brave firefighters, joined by contingents from out of state, won the battle. But not before 11 emergency...
DAVID KANG, professor of international relations, Dornsife College, and VICTOR CHA, senior advisor for Asia and Korea chair at Center for Strategic and International Studies.
This op-ed originally appeared at Foreign Policy on March 25.
"North Korea's not that dangerous."
Wrong. There is no threat of war on the Korean peninsula because the United States and South Korea have deterred the regime for over six decades, or so the thinking goes. And the occasional provocation from Pyongyang -- full of...
PAUL S. ROSENBLOOM, professor of computer science, Institute of Creative Technologies, Viterbi.
This op-ed originally appeared at the Huffington Post.
Introductory science courses, whether in physics, biology or psychology, typically span the discipline's core ideas, along with glimpses of its past and future. Not so with computer science. Students either learn how to use basic applications -- browsers, text editors, drawing programs -- or acquire beginning programming skills. They may also be introduced to some key components of working computer...
DAN SCHNUR, director of USC's Unruh Institute of Politics, Dornsife College.
This op-ed originally appeared at Bloomberg on March 6.
Most first-time candidates for elective office learn quickly that political messaging is a lot like the old playground game of Red Rover.
Your opponents don’t bother to try to break through between the two strongest members of your team. Rather, they zero in on the smallest and weakest links in your...
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