Xenophobia, or the fear of foreigners, is sweeping through Europe. Last year, Swiss voters widely approved a ban on the building of minarets, the large steeples common to mosques. Countries like Austria,...

Do you guys have a favorite book, article or text to read? It’s like every time you read it, you discover something new behind its meaning. And every time you read it, it fascinates you more. In my case,...

Barack Obama took a Bush-like thumpin’ last week in Massachusetts, no doubt about that. And he brought it upon himself.As a newcomer to national politics, the president can come across as a British colonial...

We all know who the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was. We’ve learned about King growing up in our history classes. He was a minister, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and, of course, everyone knows him for...

Last year in his annual State of the State address, Gov. Ted Strickland told Ohioans that through the troubled economy, the state of our state was steadfast.At that time, the state’s most recently recorded...

At the corner of East Capitol Street and First Street in Washington D.C., John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, John Stevens and Clarence...

One year ago, the American people elected President Obama supporting the notion of change. That November election was a public referendum rejecting Republican policies about the economy, social justice...

Every time you meet someone new, you eventually must answer that inevitable, wretched question: “What kind of music do you listen to?”I suppose this is a fair thing to ask someone. Everyone has at...

If I ever meet Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the guy with the explosives sewn into his underwear, I definitely have a few things to say to him.Recent events from Christmas Day have violated one of the last...

My roommate in Olson Hall freshman year was from Tokyo, and once I asked him what the Japanese thought about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was only beginning to learn English, and my Japanese is limited to...

To be honest, most of us had seen this coming.The first terrorist incident in the Obama presidency was sure to spark a massive wave of criticism from the right, and the attempted Christmas Day attack by...

Procrastination. We all do it at one time or another. College students, as a breed, have it down to such a well-practiced art form that it sometimes seems to be the natural order of things rather than...