Olympian swimmer and gold medalist Michael Phelps is genetically endowed with a proportionally longer wingspan, larger than average hands and feet and a double-jointed chest. These seemingly arbitrary...

An English student teacher who taught me as a sophomore in high school went the entire year without calling me by the right name. The president of my high school stopped me before mass one day to congratulate...

History has a tendency to repeat itself. As memory fades, events from the past can become events of the present. Some, like author William Strauss and historian Neil Howe, argue that this is due to the...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column about how the Medill faculty needs more women of color. I detailed how I wanted to learn from journalists whose experiences might more closely parallel mine if I...

Fraternity houses on college campuses host a barrage of underage drinking events each weekend. Dark, dingy basements of fraternity houses are the setting for copious amounts of alcohol being served by...