On November 4, 2008, two important things happened in American politics. We elected our first minority leader, and 96 percent of minority voters did not support the Republican candidate.The latter should concern the GOP enough to change its image to keep its ship from sinking.There is no doubt that it will be a difficult task to change the ideals and voting patterns that materialized in the 1960s. No thanks to southern seg...

If enough reasons didn’t already exist to believe that Mayor Richard M. Daley is a shady politician, Chicagoans have yet another one.Look to any major news source in the city within the past week, and one of the top headlines consists of none other than our beloved privatized parking meters.But this time, Chicago drivers aren’t griping just about sky-high meter prices—though they have quadrupled in some cases, accordin...

It’s an official all-out warfare, sort of, though it’s nothing entirely new—Catholics are on the front lines of a political matter, causing yet another rift between the Roman Catholic Church and its pushy American flock.Since President Barack Obama made the announcement back in March that he would be addressing the University of Notre Dame’s graduating class on May 17, nearly 65,000 people have signed an online petitio...

When I graduated from high school four years ago, I found myself telling almost everyone I knew how thrilled I was to be entering “the real world.” Far away from the confines of the life I was used to, the idea of college seemed like perpetual bliss: my first ticket into the adult world.Here I am, almost four years later, six weeks away from donning a cap and gown, and I can’t seem to tear myself away from anticipating...