In attempts to tackle food waste, the French National Assembly recently voted to ban supermarkets from disposing unsold food and instead having them donate their leftovers to different charities in the...

When school let out for the summer, I expected to enjoy myself in the warming sunlight of my home state of California. It was supposed to be a summer of relaxation and hometown comforts, where the usual...

BEIJING — It’s easy being a foreigner in Beijing, if you want to be. It’s easy to grab a taxi, armed with a crisp 100-yuan bill (about $16.11, at Google’s last count), and shuttle...

Growing up in this generation, we often hear our parents and grandparents express the adage, “We knew that you go to college, you get a job.” Of course, in a period marked by the recession...

Iowa is a proud state when it comes to the political sphere. Our first-in-the-nation status for presidential hopefuls has been a hallmark of campaigns but probably more so to the identity of the state....

Earlier this week, the Iowa Department of Transportation rejected the appeals of four Iowa cities to maintain use of several automated traffic-enforcement cameras. The cameras have been at the center of...

I only applied to two schools: Bradley University and the University of Iowa. But let’s be honest… It was always going to be Iowa. And I can thank my Aunt Tracy for that. She recommended it one Sunday...

Congratulations, 2015 University of Iowa graduates, you did it. You’ve finally reached the end of a long line of final exams, term papers, and all those all-nighters that went along with them. You...

The American Dream is one of the more connotation-laden phrases in U.S. history. Throughout the past couple centuries, individuals and families have flocked to the United States for this one simple aspiration....

In 2012, President Obama made a speech highlighting a specific goal of his foreign policy: a “pivot” to East Asia, where his administration would overturn the Bush-era paradigm of a Middle...

I remember walking down Washington Street on a brisk December day last year when the freezing temperatures were almost too much to handle. The hood on my boxy parka nearly consumed my face because of how...

Considering we are over a year away from the 2016 presidential election, it is astounding how early presidential candidates have to start being … “presidential.” Some of us political junkies,...