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...

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,...

Tragedy struck an Amtrak train on Tuesday night. Seven people were killed and hundreds were injured after the train, travelling close to 100 mph, derailed going around a curve. This only illustrates how...

Four years ago, a wide-eyed, small-town girl set foot on the University of Iowa campus without an inkling in her mind of what four years as a Hawkeye would be like. On Tuesday, that same girl submitted...

Recently, a family of a 15-year-old girl with autism was escorted off a United Airlines plane after the girl, Juliette, had caused a small disruption. This “disruption” consisted of Juliette...