In his 2012 State of the Union address on Jan. 24, President Obama laid out general plans for the economy, energy, housing, immigration and, of course, education. During his remarks on higher education, Obama proposed several measures to make colle...

There are plenty of aspects that make Fordham great. It is an academically prestigious institution with a beautiful campus, a great Jesuit influence and (a personal favorite) a recently resurgent men's basketball program. But there is one t...

Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, recently refused to exempt religious institutions from regulations requiring employers to provi...

Last week, the Obama administration required all U.S. employers to provide free contraception to their female employees through health insurance plans. This has become a contentious issue, as it entails that even organizations with religious affiliatio...

Many wielders of power and wealth have an admonishable affinity to promiscuity. This is, of course, not to say that every leader will cheat on his spouse. Yet, the patt...

Presidential elections always act as a gauge of political climate and a trial process for party ideology. In the midst of current economic woes, the political talking points t...

Thousands of college students will attempt to register to vote in the coming months only to be turned away. Students who have an out-of-state driver's license, and even those who have an in-state driver's license but who pay out-of-state tuition, will ...

Political campaigns are ugly. No two ways about it. Mud-slinging, name-calling, fighting words, attack-ads: they are all there. And, although it is not pretty, this article is not going to go so far as to call for an end to the heated rhetoric. I get i...

For the past few months, a heated debate has raged about America's conception of religion in the public sphere. No, a zany religious group was not the propagator. In fact, it was perhaps one of the most unlikely of candidates: a seemingly mediocr...

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade,thousands of anti-abortion protestors descended upon the National Mall to rally against the precedential ruling that guaranteed a woma...

On January 12, five students and two non-students at Florida International University (FIU) were arrested for participation in an Occupy Miami protest and for not holding the pr...

Last week, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) dominated the news. Unable to look up random facts during Wikipedia's blackout, I found myself considering the purpose of the Inter...

This week marks the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, and some will use this as an opportunity to continue the debate on the ethics and legality of abortion. While open debate on any issue should be encouraged, particularly one...

The Ram Van Office's move to the basement of the Regional Parking Garage has sparked differing opinions among members of the Fordham community. Some have complained about the inconvenience of having to walk to the parking garage located on the fa...

The now viral video that shows four United States Marines casually urinating on three dead Taliban fighters became an immediate subject of international outrage when it surfaced last week. The near unanimous outrage generated by the video mirrors the g...

A black bar was stamped across Google's homepage. An ominous dark message replaced Wikipedia's articles. WordPress bloggers fell silent, and the active chatter of Reddit's ...

It is the complaint of countless professors: Students are only worried about their grades. For four years, students do the assignments, write the papers, take the tests and go to office hours in the hope that, when the time comes to graduate, they will...

With bills like the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention and Prosecution Act soon to be voted on, now seems like as good a time as ever to discuss American liberty, and the funny way it seems to be evapo...

This fall, the options on the stage of Republican candidates have weakened my hopes for a meaningful election year. Certainly, candidates with diverse skills are interesting and even useful in office. I wouldn't mind another president from e...

Dear Editor: Though there may not be a consensus on the validity of race-based affirmative action in Dr. Mark Naison's senior seminar, Affirmative Action and the American Dream, we seem to ag...