University of Iowa students were invited to strap on their gambling boots while maybe catching a few football games in the process. Earlier this week, the UI announced its creation of a raffle offering...

When your class is graded on a curve, as has been the status quo throughout the history of higher and secondary education, your grade depends more or less on how well everyone else does. However, the...

So, I’m homeless. Kind of — not homeless in terms of wandering aimlessly around the Pedestrian Mall with no place to go, but homeless in terms of being in-between leases, just like seemingly all...

There are many reasons to be excited about the inevitable end of the War on Drugs, specifically the incredibly wasteful practice of marijuana prohibition. The end of wasting billions of dollars upholding...

The University of Iowa said it was going to make a big push to recruit more students, and it wasn’t kidding. Ads for the UI have popped up all over, from Spotify to TV to the Johnson County Fair....

Former Sen. Staci Appel, D-Ackworth, who is campaigning to represent Iowa’s 3rd District in the U.S. House, recently announced a pledge to propose cuts in wasteful spending by Congress, as reported...

The future is now. Or coming soon, anyway. Johnson County, Iowa, is among one of the first counties in the country to allow driverless cars on county roads for research purposes. Mark Nolte, the president...

Coffee rust is destroying the Guatemalan coffee crop, according to NPR. As if, given the war in Gaza, the war in eastern Ukraine (preventing international workers from getting to the crash site of the...

It’s fair to say that Americans have mixed feelings about China, and for good reason. It should be concerning that China’s government is directing economic espionage against some U.S. businesses,...

Most of the non-ESPN sports media, women’s rights activists, criminal-justice experts, lay commentators, and logical people everywhere were justifiably outraged with the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s...

When I was 16, I started working my first real job at a neighborhood grocery store. My coworkers were generally around the same age as me, with the exception of my manager, who was closing in on 30. My...

At the center of the controversy surrounding the Chauncey is the city’s plan for funding the project. Last week, Iowa City’s Economic Development Council approved the allocation of $14.1 million...