How many of you had any control over where you were born? If I could have picked the location of my birth, I'd pick a first world country. If I could choose the city I was raised in, it would be somewhere...

Good news, America. The National Security Agency has your privacy in mind. When Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Or., and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Co., asked the NSA to disclose how many Americans have had their communications...

The term "addiction" is not unfamiliar to most people. Most commonly, the first thing that springs to mind is drug addiction: an addiction to cocaine, heroin, or alcohol. What about the obsessive streak...

It's a common occurrence after a revolution. A power vacuum exists once the former regime is toppled. The populace, hoping to achieve some sense of order, puts power in the hands of a chosen group of leaders....

"So, why Cane's?" I inquire of the can-do kid before me at our table. He's as cool as a goddamned cucumber, this cat - slouched against the wall of Gretna's Raising Cane's with the sort of chill-pilled,...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the use of drones overseas. Today I want to talk about drones on the domestic front. In February, Congress ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to create guidelines...

Thus far in 2012, there have been more U.S. military deaths from suicide than from combat. U.S. troop suicides have outnumbered combat deaths during periods in 2008 and 2009 as well, according to the BBC. At...

Some things just shouldn't make heads roll. In the first season of HBO's uber-popular series, "Game of Thrones," one particular scene of one particular episode features several decapitated prop heads on...

To the Editor: The Reveille recently (June 13, 2012) ran an article on salary compression that quoted me to the effect that we are "firing" faculty. Please note that I said that salaries and wages are...

Editor's note: This column contains explicit language It's a rainy Tuesday in June, and I'm taking the twelfth step of drug rehabilitation, an interview with English professor and "Treme" writer Mari Kornhauser....

On June 9th, Reverend Creflo Dollar was released from a Fayatteville, Ga., jail on a $5,000 bond. This isn't the first time a prominent televangelist has gone to jail, and God willing it won't be the last. The...

Paying one's own way, as comedian Daniel Tosh's recent "Daniel's Kickstarter" routine reminds us, is a self-sabotaging Ponzi scheme. "Like a lot of you," he deadpans with Sarah McLachlan's signature gut-wrenching...