With World Trade Organization member states poised to enact retaliatory tariffs, President George W. Bush has little time left to decide whether to continue his tariffs on foreign-produced steel. Although...

I"Black people yellin' racism, white people yellin' reverse racism, Chinese people yellin' sideways racism ... but ain't nobody got it worse than the American Indian... ." - Chris Rock t seems we are bred...

When one thinks of Somalia, standard pictures come to mind. An utter black hole where a government, albeit a predatory one, used to be. Chaos, clan warfare and the massacre of international peacekeepers....

The percentage of commuting undergraduates has declined, according to the Student Interest Survey, from 55.2 percent in 1986 to 41.9 percent in 2001. We hope both the University and community will accept...

Following House passage, the Senate passed a sweeping Medicare reform package Tuesday that has less to do with prescription drugs than with eventually ending public control of seniors' health-care coverage. This...

In what seems an endless stream of anti-environmental policy, the Bush administration has proposed changing the way our country deals with how endangered species are protected or, in this case, not protected....

Macalester College is considering allowing co-ed dorm rooms. Students frequently live in mixed-gender situations off campus, and allowing that option on campus makes sense. Gay and lesbian students raised...

In reply to Jesse Lickel's Nov. 24 letter to the editor, I, Marty Andrade, wish to offer myself some defense. First, I wish to point out to Lickel that I am in no way someone who would trivialize mental...

Of all the developments in Washington with George W. Bush as president, nothing has been as impressive as the Medicare reform that passed Congress yesterday. The bill confronts the three most pressing...

Last Thursday's bombings of the British consulate in Turkey elicited the usual slew of media commentary - the chain of terror is continuing against all U.S. allies and al-Qaida is as active and malicious...