Category: Opinions

Whenever a new policy discussion arises, the media always jumps on some new way to frame the debate in its favor. Immigration reform is no exception. The Associated Press announced April 2 that the definition of illegal immigration will be changed to reflect the illegality of the act rather than that of the person. The...

On Easter Sunday, the most watched television show on American cable was not the finale of the five-part miniseries “The Bible.” Instead, more Americans sat and watched the season three finale of “The Walking Dead,” a show about the world after a zombie-like apocalypse. The 12.4 million people who watched the show on Easter, a...

I will never forget the look on my husband’s face as he helped carry his grandmother’s casket to a hearse waiting outside a little Catholic church in a tiny town in Nebraska on a cold, windy November afternoon. Marcella Svendsen, my mother-in-law’s mother, died of lung cancer in 2010. She smoked for much of her life....

Sweating lightly, I sat pedaling away on the old-school, yellow LeMond trainer along with 14 other classmates. We were the first of two Physical Wellness Dynamics groups to go through the 20-minute workout cycle. I noticed several students showing signs of high fatigue: sweat running down the forehead, red cheeks, heavy breathing. But for me,...

Last week the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on California’s Proposition 8, a ballot proposal passed in the Golden State that prohibits same-sex marriage, and the Defense of Marriage Act, legislation signed by President Bill Clinton that defines legal marriage as a union between a man and a woman. By bringing this case...