Opponents of new drunk driving legislation fear it will cripple liquor sales, crowd county jails and bankrupt local governments. The bill - currently in House and Senate committees - would lower the legal...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's budget plan for 2004-05 is $125 million short, according to the budget forecast the state Finance Department released Thursday. The February budget forecast represents the final numbers...

Students from 15 colleges across the state converged on the Capitol on Monday morning in an effort to sway legislators to vote against legislation regulating access to abortion. As part of the Pro-Choice...

The days of the storied Ernie Pyle relations between media and the military are as much a part of the past as trench warfare. Today, as soldiers prepare for battle, journalists are doing the same - literally...

School children expressing loyalty each morning to the flag is seen by some as an American duty - but others see it as an affront to the very ideals for which it stands. It might soon be a required practice...

In early February, first lady Laura Bush canceled a planned White House literary symposium after learning that many of the poets she invited planned to use the platform to protest a possible war with Iraq. Civil...

Last semester I wrote a column, "So-called Friends of Israel are anything but," Oct. 22, 2002, denouncing a document distributed by Friends of Israel, a student group at the University. In unambiguously...

If you are among the 42 percent of Americans who, according to a recent study, feel the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees the press, consider the case of the Pentagon Papers: By...

The trademark American freedoms to speak, print, assemble and petition government officials are fixtures of U.S. law. Many nations of the world, however, lack a law comparable to the First Amendment. Even...