The Whiteness Project has been online for some time now. Introduced as a multimedia project, the interactive investigation has white people in Buffalo, New York, talk about race. The website allows for...

Today is Veterans Day, a special day set aside to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, will make an appearance at a ceremony in Iowa City today. It is often...

Cancer is the broad term used to describe more than 100 different diseases in which damaged cells divide and spread uncontrollably, breaking down the body and causing organs to malfunction. This definition...

Just say no works, apparently. Who knew Nancy Reagn’s famous words would resound so clearly all these decades later? That’s one of the messages you could take away from last week’s election. So...

GOP must change strategy Ever since the Republicans had control of the House, they have been in a sticky situation with President Obama. On one hand, they had enough representation in Washington in which...

Osgerby is studying abroad at City University, London. Millions of British taxpayers have received letters this week breaking down how their money has been spent by the government in what has been called...

People love it when bad things happen. It is not because we as a society like to see people in pain or others in suffering, but rather that we flock to it because it gives us something to talk about. We...

After the election, local and federal officials would like to re-evaluate tax-credit systems. Who should get them, how much they should get, and if they are actually effective are questions that everyone...

Election Day, a day when the entire country was wrapped up in the event that is as political as it is dramatic. For a moment in time when the polls closed in the state of Iowa and election projections...

After the anticipation of the 2012 presidential election led to a dramatic defeat, the GOP was hurt. The Washington Post ran a piece titled “The GOP might as well be dead.” Yet, waking up...

By the people, for the people: An idea that revolutionized the world. Entire pillars of our society are founded in this principle, yet the system it represents still functions as it did 200 years ago....

The big day is finally here; your parents are sitting in the crowd with tears in their eyes as you walk across that stage to receive your college diploma. Only to let it sink in that you will spend the...