Jesse Michels

Developing real leadership

Columbians looking to enter politics need to be more self-aware than current leaders.

A new educational paradigm

The linear track of American education is limiting students' individual talents and passions.

Unfashionable foreign policy

The war must end if we are to fix problems at home.

Journalistic laziness

Internet immediacy has compromised the integrity of news reporting.

Dinner with a dictator

We've come a long way in regards to purposeful free discourse with unsavory rulers.

The questions our president neglected to ask

Don't write off important Columbia moments the way Obama wrote off the Senate.

Columbia social life

With three fewer frat houses, students are limited in their pursuit of on-campus partying.

To dream and vote the impossible dream

Whatever happened to "Yes We Can"?