Consider, for a second, that you are experiencing your worst nightmare — a loved one has fallen unresponsive, perhaps, or a fire is threatening to decimate your home. In that moment, all you’d want...

Editor's Note: This letter is in response to ["True/False 'After Tiller' subject faces medical investigation"](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/3/15/truefalse-after-tiller-subject-faces-medical-inves/). Just...

Discrimination is, by definition, unfair treatment. Here in Missouri, we have established a set of laws called the Missouri Human Rights Act to prevent discrimination in housing, the workplace and places...

_Editor's note: Tigers Against Partisan Politics encourages citizens across the 4th congressional district, especially the Columbia area, to join in their effort. Letters should be sent to:_ _The Honorable...

It’s become an unquestioned thing in the gay community that being asked “top or bottom?” is no less benign a question than “chocolate or vanilla?” Granted, it’s not like this query comes up...

I’m one of the more unsocial people I know. Don’t get me wrong; I love people, social gatherings and adventures. I just prefer experiencing them on a screen while in the comfort of my own home. I...

This past weekend, the Conservative Political Action Conference was held in Washington, D.C. The top names in the conservative world were there to rub elbows and slurp sodas. This conference gave a glimpse...

It’s getting to that point in the semester where I have a perpetual pain in my neck. The first time I encountered this pain was a couple years ago, and I convinced myself I had scoliosis, a brain tumor,...

Just more than 500 miles away in the city of Columbus, Ohio, Savanna Delong just won the city’s first-ever transgender discrimination case. According to an [article by LGBTQ Nation](http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/03/ohio-judge-fines-club-in-columbus-first-ever-transgender-discrimination-case/),...

Have you ever donated a couple of quarters to a child’s Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF box or given the bell-ringing Salvation Army guy a few dollars and wondered where your money would go and if it would...

“You can’t handle the truth!” Those famous words were the beginning of a speech from the movie “A Few Good Men,” in which the fictitious Col. Jessep explains why the decisions that high-ranking...

No one should be able to commit rape with impunity. In our country, such infallibility should not exist. It’s our duty as citizens and voters to make sure that our government preserves justice and to...