Black Lives Matter is an organization that has gained national attention recently for illegally shutting down highways with their marches and making extremely aggressive anti-police statements. While it...

Fear of the freshman 15 abounds in college dorms. The perfect body you sculpted in high school is disappearing. The ability to eat egregious amounts of food without gaining weight may be lost. Nobody wants...

As Labor Day passed this week, I found myself thinking about why we have it at all. Labor Day is not only a day off of school and work. Labor Day is a legitimate federal holiday for the little things we...

Last Wednesday, I received an angry tweet from someone regarding [my column from last week.](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2016/8/30/trump-not-clinton-displays-bigotry-and-blatantly-p/) The person...

Foreign language education in the U.S. is severely insufficient. In some systems, children are taught the same material year after year until they get to high school and have the opportunity to take advanced...

With the presidential election just a few months away, everyone who can legally vote is anxious to cast their opinion in this controversial election. If you’re a freshman like myself, this will be your...

It’s been almost three weeks here at MU and everyone is starting to settle in. Schedules are becoming routine, people are finding their niches, and the first load of laundry is, hopefully, getting done....

In 2007, Apple sold 72 million iPhones. That number has increased every year since, and during the first fiscal quarter of 2016 alone, they sold just over 74 million. There is no denying technology has...

Countless former GOP leaders and sitting members of Congress are refusing to support their nominee for president. What these Republicans fail to mention while they are bashing Trump is that they essentially...

Every Missouri Students Association election cycle, candidates seem to promise to increase transparency, and it seems that it might finally be on the way. MSA Senate is making a push to [publish all voting...

It’s fairly normal for presidential candidates to trade criticisms and even insults on the campaign trail. But a recent exchange between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, in which they accused each other...

The U.S. is facing many major issues in the final year of President Barack Obama’s term. The threat of the Islamic State is growing, the national debt continues to crawl toward $20 trillion, and home...