We were talking about meeting people because it was hot — well, quite warm; if you want to see hot, just wait for the future, which will be tense, as in future tense. (Of course, nobody these days...

Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a man many pundits consider to be a strong contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, took the stage at the Iowa GOP convention this past weekend...

Since at least the 1990s, Republican and Democratic politicians have become increasingly polarized. Moderates are a rare breed nowadays, but now even ordinary people who identify as Democrats or Republicans...

A customer at work asked me: “Adam, have you been keeping up with what’s happening in Iraq?” The short answer is yes. The full answer is much longer and much more concerning. As the...

You wouldn’t expect programs designed to prepare kids for the real world to be so contentious. But whether it’s No Child Left Behind or the Common Core, national education standards have polarized...

If I resent one thing, just one thing about the University of Iowa, it’s that for some godforsaken reason, I always have at least one final exam scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Few people in their late...

This was a landmark week for killer robots across the planet. Tuesday’s meeting at the United Nations in Geneva was the first time human government officials gathered to focus on an increasingly...

The NFL can learn a thing or two from the NBA. In light of the Donald Sterling controversy, sparked when the Clippers owner expressed offensive remarks about Black people, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver...

Recently the Iowa State Board of Regents appointed a blue ribbon commission (headed by David Miles) to evaluate the mechanism of funding allocation to the three regents’ universities: the University...

I blame it all on the invention of the PalmPilot, but from where I’m sit-ting, spontaneity is essentially dead. I’m not sure if it’s a function of my growing older or if it’s just...

It still hurts. Four years of heads dropping or turning away at the sight you, with a quickness so automatic, you wonder if it hurts; of strangers watching you through the corners their of eyes as if looking...

As any dedicated reader of the DI Opinions section has surely noted, the June 3 Johnson County county-attorney primary election (which, in this deeply Democratic county, essentially amounts to a regular...