By the time you read this, tens of millions of Americans will already have cast their ballots. Tens of millions of Americans will be standing in line outside churches, schools and community centers. Millions...

Just four minutes into a recent Columbia City Council meeting, an agreement was announced between American Airlines and Columbia Regional Airport. On Oct. 22, City Council gave its final approval to the...

With the changing of the times, the dwindling of our planet’s natural resources and the abhorrent display of human improvidence during the last half-century in our quest for cheap energy comes a funky...

Browsing through the news this week, all I saw were the same stories that have graced the headlines for the past couple of weeks. And that’s understandable. With the final stretch before Election Day...

We have become accustomed to filling in tiny, numbered bubbles. From various applications to Scantron sheets, we have perfected the task of filling in the circle next to the best-fit answer. Fill in your...

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote … that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.” Samuel...

What ingredient can be found in more than [50 percent of consumer goods](http://www.verite.org/Commodities/PalmOil) and is all at once innocuous-sounding, environmentally deleterious and increasing in...

Don’t let the shiny student center and awesome swag floating around campus fool you: MU suffers from a chronic lack of funding. Only four other states in the union offer less state support to their...

No one ever warned me how much it would cost to do my laundry on campus. And that’s only if the dryers are able to dry all your clothes in one cycle, which often is not the case.

Though it seems...

It’s hard to believe the infamous euro was born only 13 years ago. Considering how dependent an entire continent is on one currency, it’s hard to see it fail. And by fail, I mean suffer. And by suffer,...

Chart-topping artists are idols in our society. We drool over every word they sing or rap to us, but this often comes with a cost. We accept and even join in on their slurs of profanities, derogatory phrases...

America’s foreign policy is terrible. It’s reactionary, it’s violent and it’s inhumane. The United States of America tortures — wait, excuse me, we “engage in enhanced interrogation techniques.”...