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.”...

Since 2008, MU has emphasized its desire to become a smoke-free campus. In July 2011, it implemented the second phase of its plan: Smoking was to be allowed only in designated areas. Students, staff members...

For the most part, continental energy independence is something we can all agree on. Go ahead, ask around: Chances are you won’t find many North Americans opposed to the prospect of being a self-sufficient...

May the odds be ever in your favor, or in Venezuela’s case, Hugo Chávez’s. On Oct. 7, Chávez was re-elected as president of Venezuela, with 55 percent of the vote. He beat out his underdog opponent,...

Republican is to Romney as Democrat is to Obama. Easy enough, right? Not so much. If that is about all you know about politics, then this one’s for you. With so many different opinions and issues bombarding...

Barack Obama won [Tuesday night's debate](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/us/politics/transcript-of-the-second-presidential-debate-in-hempstead-ny.html?pagewanted=all). In both the [CBS](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57533850/poll-obama-edges-romney-in-second-debate/?tag=fdleft;fdmodule)...

I hate the presidential debates. The celebration, the paean to engagement and democracy, the inevitable infestation of my Twitter feed with banal observations and mock outrage. It’s the worst thing....

Here at MU, our water is fluoridated. Alarming as it should be, this fact is unsurprising when we consider that in the U.S., [nearly 75 percent of Americans have access to fluoridated water supplies](http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/statistics/2010stats.htm)....