Obamas higher education reform is misguided
President Barack Obama repeated many of the ideaspresented in his State of the Union Address Friday at the University of Michigan; emphasizing that”higher education is...
H5N1 research benefits outweigh risks
This month has thrownacademia and the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) into an uproar. Two studies slated to bepublished in December contained details...
School newspaper had right to run anti-gay column
A Wisconsin high school newspaper drew national attention this month when it ran two opposing opinion columns discussing adoption by same-sex couples. The Shawano School...
Abortion restrictions will not solve problems
On Friday, President Barack Obama ruled that religious hospitals and businesses could not restrict employee insurance coverage for birth control and Sunday marked the 39thanniversary...
Dont let works be removed from public domain
While the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) dominated last week’s headlines, another damaging intellectualproperty decision actually passed with relatively little...