This is my penultimate column, so I figured that now would be as good a time as any for the obligatory retrospective on what I've learned during my time at Northwestern. The answer is: Not much. There...

There are things in our lives that we remember: The poignancy of a moving quote, the picture book blaring with primary colors and rhyming phrases your parents read to you with charming repetition, a letter...

After more than a decade at war, American troops are finally coming home from Afghanistan with combat missions expected to be complete by 2014. Similarly, the last American troops left Iraq in December...

The other day, I was filling out a psychological survey when I arrived at question I couldn’t answer: “Are you a Democrat or are you a Republican?” Unfortunately for whomever needed my response...

A week or so ago, I was walking up North to pick up my car on Ridge Avenue. It had been raining earlier, so I was wearing my bright red raincoat. While walking, a middle-aged man with a strange limp complimented...