The rioters are idiots; everyone acknowledges that. Criminally, they vandalized, stole and committed arson. They should be held liable and charged to the fullest extent of the law. On top of this, their...

The parties have weighed in. The governor and the state's two major parties now all have their proposals for eliminating the state's projected $4.23 billion deficit on the table. To avoid a special summer...

LJason Sportel ike every student in the College of Liberal Arts, I have been forced to deal with the fact that I need to pass the Graduation Proficiency Test in order to graduate. Well, congratulations...

MAshley Fuller onday was a sad day for the women of the state of Minnesota. Our state passed the first of a series of proposed bills designed to restrict and impede a woman's right to make her own reproductive...

At the stroke of midnight, most U.S. residents will have filed their tax returns, marking the end of the annual ritual that allows us to share in the unfulfilling experience of interacting with our government's...

It is worth remembering that this was a war launched in the name of security. Of course, to those in possession of their critical faculties the claim was always risible. Even the Central Intelligence Agency...

Within an hour after the men's hockey team won its second-straight NCAA championship Saturday, hundreds of people descended on Dinkytown for what is quickly becoming an annual riot. The hooligans flipped...

On the environment, green legislators are often torn between what is ideal and what is feasible. Such was the case at the Legislature this week as lawmakers consider how best to store nuclear waste at...

Hootie Johnson must be straight from central casting. The rich, old, Southern white man - a caricature of Boss Hogg meets Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel - said his elite private golf club, which hosts the...

AJohn Tribbett s I watched the Marines help topple Saddam Hussein's bronze image, I thought to myself, "Semper fie, do or die, by God, our boys have taken Iraq." As the scenes of jubilation unfolded on...