It is no small wonder why voter turnout in federal elections ranges from a mere 36 to 63 percent when politicians such as John Edwards find their sketchy deeds exposed in the spotlight. Public trust in...

Over the past few weeks, the North Carolina legislators have worked their versions of the N.C. 2011-2012 budget. This legislature moves for the phasing out of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship...

Zuckerberg, Gates and Jobs are all billionaires who built their empires without a college degree. Now Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, is actually paying people not to go to college.  Thiel is offering...

The 2011 Arab Spring revolutions have been most significant political shifts of the decade, if not our generation. For years we have awaited such bold action while our leaders shook hands with dictators...

When it comes to technology, 10 years is a lifetime. The same timeline also applies to video games. In the past decade, we've gone through almost two generations of video-game consoles. Spanning from 2000...

In the first decade of the new millennium, nothing shaped Louisiana quite as drastically as Hurricane Katrina. The government's failure to respond to Katrina emphasized the inadequacies of those responsible...

Undoubtedly, when we look back on the 10 years between 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden's ultimate demise, some things will stick out in the world of politics. Of all the events, though, one in particular seems...

Few scientific issues in the past 10 years have affected and polarized us as intensely as climate change. A growing scientific consensus points to human production of greenhouse gases as the cause, but...

Declared finished by 2003, the completion of the Human Genome Project was heralded as one of the greatest victories achieved by the scientific community in the past decade. Faced with the unprecedented...

Ten years ago, I was an awkward fifth-grader with embarrassingly round glasses, feeling like an outcast in Mississippi. At age 11, I encountered a magical place where I fit in — Tiger Stadium. Around...

With the death of Osama bin Laden bringing an unofficial end to the "aughts" decade one week ago, it would be easy to overlook the importance of one social movement in the United States during that time...

Decades ago, environmentalists were frequently seen simply as tree-huggers or vegan hippies — fringe outcasts worshipping Mother Earth. But with this new decade, it seems like everyone is starting...