As a social policy major in the School of Education and Social Policy, improving laws and the American government is always on my mind. While sometimes I speak and write about policy with no vested interest,...

The Faculty Senate leadership announced this fall a plan to eliminate the legislative powers of the Faculty Assembly. The proposed changes to the Faculty Assembly bylaws would cancel the only channel through...

Many initiatives made sense hundreds of years ago and are now obsolete. Heroin and leeches as common medical cures, fossil fuels powering transportation and the divine right of nobility rank among the...

In this era of information overload and slacktivism, people commodify opinions. Since Twitter clout is currency, nuance is inefficient and the most inflammatory take wins. But rarely does such banal discourse...

Lake Michigan’s coastline is an ever-changing landscape. Land is created and shorelines are reshaped in the form of lakefills and piers. As this happens, houses are shuttled back and forth — sometimes...