Friends keep giving me a hard time for comparing grad school to Club Med. In fact, the other day when I was doing office hours in the rec center, a colleague threw me the look of death when he spotted...

In March 2001, then-Alaska Sen. (now Gov.) Frank Murkowski introduced legislation to open the Coastal Plain of northeastern Alaska - part of the 19.8 million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - to drilling...

Seeing two sparrows mating on a tree in Northrop Mall raised my eyebrows, as well as thoughts to the springtime desire for sex. Although humans are the only mammals that do not have sex solely for reproductive...

While addressing American troops in Qatar earlier this week, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld placed the recent military action in Iraq into the following historical context: "It will certainly take...

It didn't take long for U.S. occupational troops to switch from liberating the Iraqi people to military suppression of them. As you've probably not heard, at least 25 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed...

In a few weeks - it might be as soon as several days - I will become a father. Undoubtedly this will be the happiest moment of my life. Learning that my wife was pregnant, watching her tummy grow, seeing...

New York Sen. Charles Schumer has not read the U.S. Constitution. I know this because he has said that people are unfit to be federal judges if they seek to "curtail the powers of Congress." May I refer...

Gov. Tim Pawlenty wants Minnesota to be at the forefront of biotechnology research. With much fanfare, a step in that direction came last week when the governor announced the formation of a research partnership...

After the Gophers won the NCAA hockey championship, the riots began. There was celebrating, vandalizing, fire-setting and car- tipping. The riot gear was deployed. But in the days since that chaotic evening,...

On March 14, my father was given 45 minutes by his employer to clear his desk and vacate his office. He was fired by the board of trustees of his company. The three trustees who orchestrated the action...