By Peter Sloan Something has been happening this year on campus that I find very encouraging. More than in my previous three years at the University, students and faculty have been engaged in an extended,...

The media gets a lot of criticism for having a left-wing bias, and maybe they (we) do, at least a little bit. One thing that is indisputable, however, is that the right is driving debate. Talk about health...

Approximately 523,521 Californians signed a petition, presented Thursday, to put legalization of marijuana to a referendum vote in November. Props, California. Good job. Not necessarily because you,...

To me, there’s nothing more satisfying than cracking open the binding of a fresh book. You have to use your physical senses and make the literature a part of you in order to read it. Naturally, you...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will solve our country’s health care problems inasmuch as throwing money at problems solves problems. It is “historic” in the sense that it does more...

Nancy Pelosi stood on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Sunday night, prior to the looming passage of the president’s health care reform plan, and encouraged her colleagues to vote yes,...

Four columns in, I think it may be time to share the testimony of my faith and use it to explain how evangelizing does not always have to be a grueling task. I grew up going through the motions in a Catholic...

If there’s one phrase I got sick of during this year’s SGA campaign, it was “perception is reality.” The problem with hating that phrase is that it’s too true to ignore. Perception really is...

Editor’s note: This is the second column in a two-part series. In the presence of a constitution that restricts local decision-making and centralizes power in Montgomery, Alabama’s citizens need to...

On Monday, I went to the viewing of a documentary titled “Vincent Who?” detailing the brutal murder of Vincent Chin in 1982. On a June evening, Chin and his friends were enjoying his bachelor party...

Whenever I tell someone I don’t drink, I always get the same response. “Oh, so you’re one of those hardcore Christians,” they say. The sad part about that statement is not that everyone drinks,...

George Orwell proposed that the best way to obfuscate a fact is to simply state the opposite. Republican strategists must be taking notes, because they’re now labeling the Democrats’ attempt to pass...