If there were one sport that personifies my family, it would have to be football. My father played, as did my uncles, most of my cousins, and, most recently, my little brother. And whether we are on the...

One of the most contentious issues in Johnson County over the past several years has been action (or lack thereof) on affordable housing. In Iowa City, the use of TIF funds for the high-rise Chauncey building...

The terrorist organization known as ISIS has been a growing threat that seemingly materialized from thin air in the summer of 2014. But the group has been around since 1999. It has consistently been overshadowed...

On Sept. 11, I wrote a column examining the media bias after the Michael Brown shooting. Toward the end of that piece, I stated that there would most definitely be another occurrence of journalistic favoritism...

When looking at the cycle of perpetual imprisonment that has plagued our justice system, one aspect that cannot be ignored is the juvenile offender. Perpetrators of crime under the age of 18 and their...

In the digital era, authors have a new age battle on their hands.Print is disappearing, and the protection of intellectual content rights has become hazy and outdated. It is no surprise, then, that authors...

When Beyoncé stood as a beautiful silhouette against the word, “FEMINIST,” I knew my world would be forever changed. It wasn’t just her long legs and glittery leotard. It wasn’t...

“Blackish,” ABC’s new prime-time family comedy, premièred last week. The show tells the story of an upper-middle-class black family in white suburbia in which the father (Anderson) believes...

We all remember the day the founder and head of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, was killed. Hundreds celebrated at Ground Zero following the announcement. A baseball game between the Phillies and Mets was interrupted...

My name, according to Facebook, is “Joe Lane,” which is good because, well, that’s my name. In fact, that will always be my name and, as such, will always be the title of my Facebook...

Demonstrators have taken over the streets in Hong Kong in a weeklong protest of China’s control over their democratic elections. The protest, dubbed Occupy Central, has brought protesters from all...