Are the Republicans really the anti-gay, anti-minority, anti-women party? If you just watch television and browse through Facebook, you probably think they are. Despite what you may have heard on...

Isn’t it really cool when young adults — students like us — get involved with national politics? A group of 13 NMU students did just that a couple weekends ago. Members of the NMU College Republican...

As students, we all make a big trade off to be at Northern. For many of us, four-or-more years of our life is spent receiving an education. In our time at NMU, students spend tens of thousands of dollars...

You don’t have to look far back into history in order to realize that as a race, humanity has taken a huge step forward since the advent of industrialization. Not only were there vast improvements...

A lot of people are upset by the gridlock in Washington, D.C. I, for one, think this gridlock is one of the best features of American government. Why? Congress is divided — but so are the American people. If...

As citizens, we are a pretty pessimistic bunch about government. In a majority of cases, that is absolutely warranted. War, corruption, deficits, demagoguery, high taxes, constant lying from both sides...

This week we honor the legacy of a great civil rights activist—Martin Luther King Jr. While America has often fallen short of the dream—of Dr. King’s dream—our country has certainly made better...

Way up here in the U.P., Washington D.C. sure seems like a far off and remote place. When Northern students talk about politics, the concept of the federal government has a very “them” and not an...