A year and a half ago, I was accepted as a student member on the Council on the Status of Women. At my first meeting up on the top floor of the Blank Honors Center, I found myself feeling slightly powerless...

The Obama administration’s opening forays into foreign affairs have been as calibrated and cautious as its domestic policy has been bold. Last month, President Obama laid out a strategy for Iraq that...

More Americans watched the Watchmen this past weekend than any other movie. Though primarily valuable as an artistic work, this film should spur us all to reconsider a threat many seem to have forgotten:...

I’ve applied for a lot of things in my life, scholarships, jobs, fellowships, internships, college, etc. But this year, applying to graduate school has been somewhat distinct. I can track every painful...

From The Daily Californian On Wednesday morning, the entire editorial staff of the Daily Emerald — the independent student newspaper of the University of Oregon — went on strike in protest of the...

When smoked, Salvia divinorum can yank out the rational mind, throw it to the ground, stamp on it and finally rub one’s nose in the resulting mess. I recommend giving it a try — especially because...

For some, favorites are chocolate and snack food. Some give up driving for biking or even walking. Some choose cigarettes, just when the glaciers have finally retreated and it’s finally warm enough...

In the first two months of 2009, the Democratic Congress and the White House have spent more money than the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the response to Hurricane Katrina. After they...

Point — National popular vote is good for Iowa Be brave, Iowa senators. Approve the national popular-vote bill, and take Iowa into the next American political era. Send a message to the Electoral College...

BIt’s a warm June day in 2010, and in Huntington, W.V., a Toys ’R’ Us store is quiet save for a handful of customers slowly wandering the aisles. An employee is standing idly at the register, another...

President Obama’s trade agenda is nothing if not ambitious. His just-released policy statement, titled “Making Trade Work for American Families,” ties trade to energy efficiency and environmental...

Tales of the Cedar Rapids flood have shifted from horror stories of the disaster itself to drawn-out epics of trudging through recovery purgatory. Accompanying anecdotes of struggling with the destruction,...