Opinion

Around 150 medical practitioners from Australia who are members of the group Doctors for the Family recently declared that heterosexual couples are superior to homosexual couples at raising children.

Being truthful: is it really that hard? Some might say yes, and others no. For politicians, this seems to be an especially hard thing to do.

They say a time will come when the world is ruled, not by the whims of man, but by the demands of machines. Some go so as far to say that humans will one day be enslaved by our own creations, our lives consumed with their power-hungry appetite. They say such a time is fast approaching.

Last week, Microsoft invested $605 million in Barnes & Noble’s digital reader business, which produces both the Nook e-reader and the Nook digital tablet. As a result of the investment, Barnes & Noble will create a new subsidiary, Newco, in which Microsoft will hold a 17.6 percent stake. But honestly, I don’t really care about the numbers, and you probably don’t either.

There is a lot of pressure regarding higher education, as we are all intimately aware. Whether it is the pressure to get into college, pressure to stay in college, pressure to make the most out of college or pressure to “succeed” (whatever that may mean), sometimes students and their parents resort to desperate measures to accommodate the system.

The music community suffered quite a loss with the passing of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the renowned founder of the Beastie Boys.

Obama has come a long way from his days of solely supporting civil unions, but as the issue with state decisions suggests, there are still a few more obstacles to overcome before same-sex marriage is an option for all couples, regardless of where they live.

All these students apathetic, complain this group makes them frenetic, These privileged classmen say “Hands for Africa is so annoying.”

One year after Osama bin Laden’s death, the West is still scrutinizing Pakistan’s relationship with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was characterized by an explosion of uncertainty: How had the world’s most wanted terrorist been able to hide in his Abbottabad compound for six years?

With propulsion and gusto came Kony 2012. It came in the form of a YouTube video, and within the blink of an eye, the campaign was soon gone. Kony 2012 video director, Jason Russell, stripped naked in the streets of San Diego, and soon after, April 20 came and went with few, if any, posted stickers and signs which were to sweep the nation and put Uganda on the map of international awareness.

There’s one thing that you have probably never seriously attributed to Facebook—social reform.

The two party political system is the cornerstone of American politics. The Republican and Democrat parties dominate the way in which the average citizen thinks about public policy, and increasingly shape the legislative process, focusing debates along partisan lines rather than fostering an open and constructive environment for political development.