Children are dying at immigration detention centers. More are leaving the detention centers with psychological trauma. With more than 70,000 children apprehended at the border in 2019, it is critical...
A recent policy event on occupational-licensing reform hosted by Americans for Prosperity shed light on the red tape that hinders success instead of incentivizing entrepreneurship.
Guest speaker and...
The Super Bowl might be long gone, but the football season is just getting started for the XFL.
The new professional league is similar to the NFL but aims to create a safer environment. The key difference...
An Iowa House subcommittee recently advanced a bill that would require public schools to notify parents of any curricula that pertain to sexuality or gender identity. It would also give parents a choice...
He’s a Manhattan businessman who became a politician. His name has become a headline — followed by racial targeting and at least several sexual-misconduct allegations.
No, I’m not referring...
As someone who writes a lot about climate change, I don’t usually have a lot of reasons for optimism.
Sure, there’s Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, the Sunrise Movement, and the proposed...
Last semester, months of meetings and back-and-forth between some of my contingent faculty colleagues, members of Faculty Senate, and representatives of the University of Iowa Human Resources department...
The Iowa City City Council on Tuesday once again considered delaying a decision to provide a height bonus to a new luxury apartment complex project at 12 E. Court St. After hours of voiced concerns...
The ratings of the recently released film Downhill are going, well, downhill. Despite a well-intentioned, poorly executed American rendition of the Swedish classic Force Majeure, Julia Louis-Dreyfus...
As a longstanding fan of tabletop games, I’ve noticed that there’s a pervasive stereotype about them — the notion that only weird anti-social men play them. The chief example? Dungeons & Dragons.
The...
Suppose two 18-year-old students decide to consume copious amounts of liquor on a Friday night.Â
Further suppose one of these 18-year-olds, named Sally, drank liquor in her friend’s dorm room....
Shambaugh Auditorium’s seats filled with students before the event began. Some, such as myself, were eager to sit in the front row while others trailed off to the thoracic and lumbar parts of the...
