The minute I stepped off the airplane and into Omaha’s Eppley Airfield, I felt all the tension that I had accumulated in the Middle East dissipate from my shoulders. No one was trying to shove past me,...

Thousands of Puerto Ricans took to the streets of San Juan last week to protest the position of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló after leaked messages between him and officials close to him contained texts laced...

So, Doc: What’s up with Brexit now with a new British prime minister? Just to take our minds off the Mueller media circus. Dear So: We’re not quite sure that a mostly low-key, precise person such...

There is an ongoing effort to persuade U.S. college students to believe and join their enemies, making sure they keep supporting what hurts them and believing what deceives them. This effort focuses...

The U.S. was founded on the ideal that it would be a nation in which “all men are created equal.” Centuries later, Americans have been handed a question past generations have failed to answer: Will...

Andrew Lloyd Webber changed musical theater in the early ’80s when he came out with Cats. Was it changed for the better? Perhaps not, but it certainly opened up a venue for furry-adjacent theater in...

Iowa City has made the right decision to expand its hate crime ordinance. By including harassment and trespassing, our community moves a little bit closer to providing protection for all of our neighbors. The...

This past weekend, Bold Iowa held an action intended to dramatize the severity of the climate crisis. Our inspiration came from students in Germany, who stood on melting blocks of ice in a gallows with...

So, Doc: What’s with the latest eruption from Mount Trump? Dear So: Not exactly an eruption, we think, but then, we’re not licensed geologists. More like long-standing steaming racism that roils...

My least favorite chore in high school was mowing the lawn. In the dead heat of July, I’d cut the grass at least twice, if not thrice, a week. All that time pushing and sweating and meticulously painting...