The considerable shortcomings of both main-party candidates this year have given rise to an exciting political phenomenon. President Bush has been attacked for executing a plan in Iraq without ample information and a prominent alliance. Read more...

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For many voters in the United States, the term “third-party candidate” conjures up images of Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election. For some Democrats, this phrase might provoke a mild bout of cursing about Florida swamps, spoilers and the U.S. Read more...

True or false: In her lifetime, one in four women will be sexually assaulted or raped. True or false: At least 61 percent of rapes and sexual assaults are never reported to the police. Read more...

Nicholas Louw (“Bush plans to create culture of ownership,” Oct. 21) believes that “the tendency for people to rely on others for their well-being is a source of self-destruction and that it perpetuates diminished opportunity as a consequence of apathy.” I completely agree, but with one exception ““ dependency is self-destructive only depending on whose hands you’re in. Read more...

Boycott efforts economically unsound I hope the students who prompted this whole witch hunt against Taco Bell are happy. They’ve successfully put all the students who worked at that Taco Bell out of a job and reduced the income of the farm workers they were (ignorantly) trying to help. Read more...

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