A critical aspect of United States domination on the battlefield has been maintaining air superiority and usage of the advantages that free reign over the skies gives the military. This was starkly illustrated in the first Gulf War, where once the Iraqi Air Force had been rendered ineffectual, the armor was also practically obsolete– coalition […]

Since the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in 1973, public opinion has decisively sided with the right of a woman to have an abortion. Yet in spite of this consistent public sentiment, these fundamental liberties continue to plague the current makeup of politics. With the decisions set forth by the Supreme Court, proponents of […]

One could argue that cancer is among the most feared health problems in the United States today. It is common knowledge that smoking causes lung cancer, and that using sunscreen can prevent skin cancer. Unfortunately, many people do not know that the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) causes some types of cervical cancer. The recently developed HPV […]

1. Superman (v.) Urban Dictionary Definition: When you are mad at your girl for not having sex with you. So when she falls asleep you masturbate and cum on her back. After that, stick the bed sheet on to her back and when she wakes up it’s stuck to the cum and she has a […]

January 22, 2008 marked the 35th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that finally “gave” women autonomy over their own bodies. Despite its presence for the last few decades, many voices are threatening to overturn this decision. Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, for instance, does not consider abortion a privacy issue, […]

At 4:00 AM on October 3rd, 2006, Bishop Alberto Ramento was lying asleep at his convent in San Sebastian, Tarlac City. A Supreme Bishop of the Philippine Independent Church, Ramento was known for his tireless efforts to uphold workers’ rights and fight for the poor and oppressed. He suddenly felt a biting pierce to his […]

In political discourse regarding the Middle East, Iran has frequently been in the spotlight of US foreign policy, oftentimes in a negative light. The September 25 issue of the New York Times reported that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran stated that he considered the dispute over his country’s nuclear program “closed” and that Iran would […]

“My heart feels like a house and what’s inside needs to be gutted out – that’s what it feels like on the inside.” I heard these words from man named Thomas* who lived his whole life in New Orleans. A man who had been forced to leave his home in a public housing complex after […]

“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.” This sentiment of concern introduced the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1962, and it continues to inspire student activism 45 years later.
SDS’s historic manifesto, originating […]

On July 13th, veteran journalist Bill Moyers invited constitutional experts Bruce Fein and John Nichols onto his weekly show, The Bill Moyers Journal, to discuss impeachment and its applicability to the Bush Administration. Ultimately, the liberal Nichols and the conservative Fein, both citing the U.S. Constitution, argued that Congress should impeach President Bush and Vice […]