To proclaim that change is what this country most needs is a gross understatement. This country is not simply in need of change - this country is in dire need of an enema. The ever-unfolding mystery wrapped...

Washington is not broken. Maybe it is to the pessimist who cites an impending recession, rising health care costs, or a war with no end in sight. But as university students, we're supposed to be optimistic,...

Twin Cities lawmakers have blundered in irresponsible efforts to address "dangerous dog" ownership for quite some time. Though the ordinance proposed on Wednesday, Nov. 14 is an improvement from previous...

Twenty-two-year-old Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has battled privacy advocates and cyber stalkers with a double-edged sword since the conception of his startup Web site in 2004. To his credit, Zuckerberg...

For Immanuel Kant, maturity and enlightenment come from the courage to use one's own understanding. "If I have a book to serve as my understanding, a pastor to serve as my conscience, a physician to determine...

My sympathies go out to young Republicans voting today if they believe in traditional Party values. Is there a candidate who will defend them unequivocally, or is winning the only criterion for their national...

I don't usually revisit previous columns, but the diverse reactions I received to "Life keeps getting easier - and scarier" (Oct. 8) prompts me to do so. One such reaction came from Mark Roberti, editor...

The Vietnam War is often used as a comparison for the quagmire President George W. Bush created in Iraq. First, the similarities were drawn between the unnecessary reasons for our involvement in the two...

There's a new version of the UPC arriving soon in your town. EPCs, Electronic Production Codes, are galaxies beyond their product code predecessor; and the technology behind them has the potential to entirely...

I was growing increasingly frustrated with three guys wearing nearly identical outfits (khaki shorts with bulging cargo pockets, striped polo shirts and sandals that displayed months of toenail neglect)....

I rushed to the corner store of University and 10th Avenue (try their cheese curds) when I heard that one of my favorite writers, Christopher Hitchens, had been persuaded by his colleagues at Vanity Fair...

Perhaps the old adage, "if you aren't liberal in your 20s, you don't have a heart, and if you aren't a capitalist by your 40s, you don't have a brain" is more of a truism than witty paternal advice......

I could nearly feel the seismic undulations coming from Thomas Jefferson's grave in Virginia after reading Osama bin Laden's most recent message to the United States. And I can't even begin to speculate...

After the last box has been taken to your dorm and just before the hatchback closes on the family station wagon, your parents probably took the opportunity to offer that universal goodbye advice to the...