Throughout my childhood, I didn’t always see eye-to-eye with those in positions of authority. I wasn’t what you would call a “bad kid,” but often times I found myself questioning the need for certain...

The 2008 recession can teach us a lot, but many Americans refuse to take the time to learn. It's not rocket science. If you've turned on the news in the last three years or heard someone rant about the...

As children, we were always told not to be in a hurry to grow up. “Enjoy being young while it lasts,” they would say. But now I’ve reached a sort-of youthful limbo where there’s no benefit to...

When the U.S. Space Shuttle Program ended last summer, many Americans bemoaned the fact we now stood to lose our nation's position as an international leader in space exploration. However, after a privately...

Factions of both typical American political persuasions wrestle with the importance of religion in the lives of political candidates. Republican evangelism discomforts progressives, but progressives must...

In the four years since Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in 2008, progressives have let all control of their ideology be smacked away from them. Progressives and Democrats...

Me: Hey, man, I had a pretty good time hanging out today. Awkward Steve: Hey, me too. Me: Yeah, well I see that my stop is coming up here on the left. Awkward Steve: Uh huh. Me: Gotta stop in to see my...

It's time to shut this column down. In fact, it's also time for me to retire my title of ‘Mizzou student,’ since, being a member of the class of 2012, I'm graduating in a week.  Has it really been...

More than three months have passed since this column began to run. A lot has happened. SOPA failed. The 53 percent took Twitter by storm. Sandra Fluke asked the government to mandate that her college fund...

The problem with political jokes is that they get elected. Nearly everyone has a cynical one-liner about politics laying around. Some fueled by humor, others by a distaste or disinterest for the political...

When it comes to music, I try to keep an open mind. I’m not one of those pretentious fans who discredits any and every song found on the radio or even a fan that sticks to one genre in particular. I...

I don’t know how many people make semester goals for themselves. This past fall, my goal for the year was to get involved in as many major-related organizations as possible to learn things related to...