Congress is back for the 112th session, and the post-election calls for working together are the hot thing around Washington. Both parties say they want to get along on taxes, spending cuts and most importantly,...

A survey cited in a 2007 Washington Post article revealed that a quarter of Americans did not read a single book in the year before the article's publication. When I read articles like this, articles...

The moment I finally understood why THE HOYA is truly important to Georgetown - the moment I first appreciated why I was spending countless hours on the job, why I was poring over my work and the work...

Thanks to outgoing commissioner Aaron Golds (COL '11), Georgetown's Jesuit and Residential Life communities, and our university's support, I was elected Georgetown's student representative to Advisory...

Packing the National Mall with almost a quarter-million people in hopes of restoring sanity might sound perfectly sane, but the crowd assembled for Saturday's rally led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert...

Alan Ardelean's viewpoint "`Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Protects Personal Privacy in Military" (THE HOYA, Oct. 22, 2010, A3) is a prime example of the kind of thinking that has heretofore hindered the repeal...

The controversial "don't ask don't tell" policy has been under fire, fueling debate in many circles ranging from government to civil society. As a U.S. Marine who was honorably discharged after over eight...

It has become almost axiomatic that one cannot be both liberal and against abortion. That view, however, should be questioned. Being pro-life, especially when that life is poor, powerless and marginalized,...

My history of South Asia professor, Aparna Vaidik, once told me that the definition of creativity is "pushing the limits of your existence." If someone feels trapped or confined by boundaries, he or she...

This week, Georgetown welcomed two of the most influential Republican leaders of the past two decades. On April 19, the College Republicans and the Catholic Student Association hosted Newt Gingrich, former...

The Tea Party protests last week remind us that while incivility and fiery rhetoric make great headlines, they serve as a meager path to progress. The fringe element of the Tea Party undermines the movement's...

Last week, Eco-Action co-sponsored an event with Campus Ministry on Catholicism and the environment, which included a speech by the executive director of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change. In its...