An epidemic is spreading through the world. Great minds are working frantically to find a cure, but the problem only seems to be growing worse, and the outlook is grim. Read more...

I recently received The Call from my parents. I’m sure many of you have had the same conversation. “Let’s talk about graduation,” they said. “Let’s talk about furniture!” I replied. Read more...

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The death penalty is necessary in order for justice to be served. With the debate about convicted murderer Michael Morales heating up, it seems appropriate to look at the arguments for abolishing the death penalty in Lana Yoo’s column “As death penalty fades, U.S. Read more...

Hillary Clinton’s comments last week about Karl Rove and his alleged obsession with her are really nothing short of ludicrous. Her comments are a response to Rove’s rather unoriginal prediction that Clinton would win the Democratic presidential primary, but lose the general election in 2008. Read more...

In my high school years I was somehow placed in the honors track. I took honors English and honors biology and I was expected to be one of the smart kids, the kind of student who took Advanced Placement tests and went to a four-year university straight out of high school. Read more...

When an editorial calls to rescind the “50 percent rule” in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (“Budget bill jeopardizes legitimacy of education,” March 3), it’s easy to target the knee-jerk panic among brick-and-mortar elitists, despite growing acceptance of the Internet’s impact on learning. Read more...