The beginning of a new year brings with it new budgets. President Obama has released a nearly $4 trillion budget to fund the government for fiscal 2016. For those who tuned in to Obama’s State of...

So I see, in the all the fallout from the Super Bowl, that Seattle Seahawk coach Pete Carroll is no longer considered to be the boy genius of the NFL. Well, he’s actually a bit too old and experienced...

Growing up, my mom always taught my brother and me not use the word “hate.” That it was an ugly word. That it defined the ignorance of its user. That it was the cause of so many of the world’s...

The Obama administration has a lucrative tax loophole in its cross hairs. For decades, the largest corporations have avoided paying U.S. taxes on profits overseas so long as the money doesn’t pass...

The Keystone XL Pipeline, which has been a point of contention between President Obama and Congress, has made it through the Republican-majority Senate, which will prompt a response from the president....

When I was a child, people called me a “believer.” I had a tendency to focus my thoughts on things that may be and the fantastical opportunities that could be waiting just outside my view....

In Chile, President Michelle Bachelet has announced her plans to end a 26-year absolute ban on abortions — a law that has lingered since the final influences of a right-wing military dictatorship in...

Israeli-US relations reached a new low after Obama’s refusal to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As the leader of an extremely fragile negotiation with Iran regarding nuclear...

Sexual assault on college campuses across the country continues to be a pervasive problem, leaving institutions of higher learning, law enforcement, and the general public at a loss for viable solutions. Several...

Seventeen-year-old transgender person Leelah Alcorn, born Joshua, committed suicide Dec. 28, 2014, citing her parents’ unaccepting views as a reason for her action in a suicide note. This note, which...

HBO is well-known among the masses of the world for defying the boundaries of modern television. From severing heads in “Game of Thrones” to record-breaking compression algorithms in “Silicon...

It seems implausible that the creation of a music album could land a man in jail for life. Well maybe in North Korea, Burma, Turkmenistan, or Libya, but certainly not in the United States. In one of the...