Opinion

Last April, the town of Khan Shaykhun, Syria was forced to inhale sarin nerve gas. At least 74 people were killed and more than 557 were injured. In response, President Donald Trump unleashed 59 Tomahawk missiles on the Shayrat Airbase....

I didn’t want to admit it for a long time. In fact, it wasn’t until I saw her that I was sure I was bisexual. I was even surer in the months following, as our relationship blossomed, and I fell...

For a long time, people struggling with mental health issues have been stigmatized. Whether they struggle with suicidal thoughts, drug addictions or mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety, the stigma can keep them silent. Often, we only recognize this...

“What’s that?” asked my new friend from West Virginia University, pointing to the Circle from Coulter Hall. Students from other universities had come to Oxford to work on a journalism project, and we were walking to a meeting. I knew...

Last week, UM Ethics Bowl students argued whether or not the standard of sexual consent in legal policies should be an affirmative verbal “yes.” The red team contended that an uncoerced, verbal or signed “yes” at every “junction” between sex...

In light of recent mass shootings, both Republicans and Democrats want to create new legislation and policies to ensure that these atrocities end. Many Republicans believe the answer is to arm teachers and to put more police officers in schools....

A recent op-ed argued that sororities play a much larger role than they actually do in the instances of assault that happen on college campuses. While it does seem unfair to hold college-aged women in 2018 to the same standards...

Fifty years ago, in what would be his final speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. looked down from the “mountaintop” to tell a mass meeting in Memphis a simple message: Labor rights are civil rights. The great organizer and...

As we remember the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we ought to take a moment to reflect on the countless individuals that made his legacy possible and continue it today. King’s legacy was...

Whether the images are ones that people recall with nostalgia – pageant queens, all-American football stars and Greek Revival buildings – or those that people try to hide from – young men rioting at James Meredith’s admittance and bullet holes...