With the nation gripped by one of the worst economic slumps since the Great Depression and the public’s penchant for more federal intervention waning, Republicans should have an easy road to the House majority come November. However, one thing stands in the way: their candidates…

As editor-in-chief of The Daily Evergreen, I would like to welcome you back for another great semester and introduce you to the new Daily Evergreen. Returning students have probably noticed a few changes to our front page. This facelift was made so we could bring you more news…

U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan unveiled a convoluted PowerPoint presentation last spring that depicted what needed to be accomplished in the war-torn country for the U.S. to claim “victory.” The presentation featured a slide with an intricate maze of arrows and policy jargon that was indecipherable to even Gen…

Cloaked by the darkness of early morning on June 3, Israeli commandos rappelled to the deck of the Mavi Marmara, a relief ship bound for Gaza, to inspect its cargo for weapons. When the sun crested on the edge of the Mediterranean, the dead bodies of nine relief workers and activists were strewn across the deck of the ship…

I love Facebook. I just hate people who use Facebook. The social network phenomenon is doing damage control in response to user complaints about sometimes cryptic changes to the site’s privacy policy that allow third parties access to users’ personal information…

To fill the void left by the departure of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the high court last week. With no judicial experience, only a couple of dense academic writings and few released memos…

In a sharply-divided 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court struck down provisions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform act last week, setting the stage for a deluge of corporate spending in the 2010 mid-term elections. This landmark decision relaxes restrictions on corporations from funneling cash into political campaigns and extends rights once reserved for individuals to corporations…

When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed walks into a federal courtroom in the coming months, the American justice system will also be on trial. After years of the Bush administration subverting the justice system, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department would prosecute the self-avowed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in a New York courtroom…

On the eve of the doomed merger between Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, lawyers from both companies assembled at the midtown law offices of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Aside from the lawyers and a few janitors working the night shift, the building was mostly vacant…

Thousands of uninsured and underinsured Americans anxiously waited in lines that snaked around the Los Angeles Forum where Remote Area Medical units were providing routine medical care. Many of the people arrived at the Forum during the wee hours of the morning…

Draped in green banners and wearing surgical masks to hide their faces, the sea of protesters rallying against the perceived improprieties behind Iran’s election is a long-awaited sight, signaling a definite shift away from the brand of political Islam that has gripped Iran for nearly 30 years…

While distributing bulletins to congregants last Sunday at his church in Wichita, Kan., Dr. George Tiller, one of a few doctors in the United States that provided late-term abortions, was murdered. Historically, acts of violence against physicians have hindered the pro-life movement and increased the rancor surrounding issues of women’s rights…

Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s decision to walk away from the court at the end of its June term incited a wave of hyper-partisan acrimony last week in the nation’s capital. The soft-spoken judge was rarely, if ever, the center of turmoil but a vacant Supreme Court seat exposes the court’s role as a public policy player regardless of who the retiring justice happens to be…

The Texas State Board of Education decided last month that science teachers will be allowed to teach “all sides” of scientific theories in biology classes across Texas, proving once again that the Tree of Knowledge is not rooted in the Lone Star state. What looked like a conventional decision was actually a thinly veiled attempt to open the door for the teaching of creationism in science classrooms…

The smudged ink on the reader’s fingers, the rings of coffee stains on the paper, the tactile feeling of flipping through pages of daunting black print – For many people, reading a newspaper is a religious experience. However, the days of waking up to a cup of coffee and a copy of The New York Times (or The Daily Evergreen) are numbered…