Let’s just say that after the week I’ve had, I almost wouldn’t mind having a beer with George W. Bush. I’d look him square in the squinty eye, then casually slap down a fiver and say, “Mr. President, it’s been nice and all, but I think we should go bipartisan on this one.”

On Wednesday night, as I watched a patchwork of states turn slowly to crimson, I wondered where the love from politicians had gone, and found it to be replaced by anger. I realized that college students aren’t the angry ones anymore. It’s the frustrated middle class, and those were the votes that counted this time around. As young people, we are defined by our idealism, and America didn’t want to hear about it anymore. It wanted blood, and as result, young America has never felt more adrift and depoliticized.

She’s back! There’s a new old kid on the block of conservative ideologies, and the far right has chosen none other than Ayn Rand. Upon closer inspection, however, Ayn Rand seems like an unusual choice for today’s conservatives.

It was the latest buzz-worthy documentary, “Waiting for Superman,” that drew me to the movies, but once that heady buzz of empathetic emotional turmoil wore off, I was left with a pervading sense of dissatisfaction.

In today’s race to appeal to the masses, the most commonly utilized approach is the use of humor. Histrionics have replaced intellectual heavyweights as a source of authority.

The rise of recent cyber-entrepreneurs and Washington University alums Jeremy Friedman, Ryan Hwang and Timothy Trinidad could become one of the best campus success stories in recent years. The three founders of Schoology, an online social media and educational platform, have generated both press and praise with their new business, which could revolutionize the way that schools utilize social media as a teaching tool.

We have a responsibility to maintain the integrity of the First Amendment, to ensure that it is not defiled as an idea. It’s just too bad that we live in the 21st century, in which things are just so tricky.

As a Generation Y GOP member, Meghan’s outspoken criticism of the rigidity of the Republican party has earned her both eager fans and a reputation as a political pariah.

The other day, Richard Cohen wrote a scathing review in The Washington Post of the current administration, claiming that we are abandoning our motherlands and ancient Western counterparts in lieu of the problem child of the Middle East. How has this happened?

Friends and fellow countrymen, it’s story time! An epic tale of the Aesop persuasion, gather ‘round for this nail-biter. The elephant, a proud, noble, occasionally blundering beast, facing off against his mortal enemy, the donkey. Lowly and stubborn, but this one’s got some spunk.