Beware of Ted Cruz     Remember when tea-party folks used to tease President Obama about his Hawaiian birth certificate? They even implied that he wasn’t an American citizen. Now, Ted Cruz...

On Sunday, South Carolina became the most recent battlefield along the lumbering campaign trails of the Democratic bid for presidency, pitting the three Democratic nomination hopefuls (former Secretary...

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] When I was a senior in high school, my advanced-placement government teacher, Roni Cline, assigned us a final project in which we had to redesign the American...

Beau Elliot [email protected] So, welcome back; we missed you. No, really. It turns out we really needed another 20,000 pairs of feet to efficiently stamp Iowa City’s unshoveled sidewalks into...

Last week, as I bike commuted to work, there was an incident during which I felt that my safety was disregarded. This is not an uncommon occurrence, however. In fact, in my experience it seems that even...

Iowa may have an unique position with its first-in-the-nation caucuses, but the governor appears to try to stage an attempt at innovating the state in the national backdrop in a neo-traditionalist way. At...

By Keith Reed [email protected] Uber is a popular ride-sharing service that is available in many cities, but not Iowa City. If you’re one of the many people in Iowa City who do not happen to own/...

Trust is important, whether in marriage, employer-employee relationships, friends, or elected officials. Having trust in today’s state and federal elected officials is becoming, at the very least, troubling. After...

As the world directed its attention to the Paris climate-change conferences, ISIS, and impending GOP debates earlier this week, history was made in the Middle East. On Sunday, according to Al Jazeera,...

Paul Osgerby [email protected] We all have a little conspiratorial appetite inside that we must feed from time to time. I, however, have quite the voracious hunger. It came to my attention this...

Samuel Studer [email protected] From Dec. 9-11, the Chicago Teachers Union voted to allow its leader to call a strike. Teachers all over Chicago voted over the course of those three days last...

At each other’s throats, and scared silly Is this the land of the free and the home of the brave, or the land of people at each others’ throats in the home of the scared silly? During the current...