Last week, the most well-known brand in the world began closing a deal to purchase one of the fastest growing; Apple is close to purchasing Beats Electronics — maker of the ubiquitous headphones and...

Commencement is going global. This weekend, thousands of Iowa Hawkeyes will walk across the stage, shake hands with campus leaders, and be recognized for their achievement in earning a University of Iowa...

I like Professor Kembrew McLeod; we’re not great friends or anything, but we have some good friends in common. (Yes, Virginia, I have some friends. At least two. And I didn’t have to bribe them all...

One of the most popular memes in American political culture is that the United States is in a state of institutional paralysis, in which partisan polarization and dysfunctional political mechanisms (the...

Iowa politics got a nod on the front page of Monday’s edition of the Washington Post in an article tracing the rise of Joni Ernst, a Republican candidate for the Senate seat being vacated by Tom...

When opponents of the Iowa football team walk into their locker room on any given autumn Saturday, they are met with a tradition that is unique even by the somewhat off-kilter standards of college sports...

My goal was simple: return to the Main Library during finals week to find at least a single instance of productive, not overly consuming studying, to root out some sort of proof that such an occurrence...

The recent recommendation by the Performance-Based Revenue Model Task Force of the state Board of Regents to allocate legislative funding largely on the basis of undergraduate Iowa residents enrolled would...

Iowa City’s smoke shops have often been the targets of city police investigation, usually for such offenses as selling to minors. But on Wednesday, a police raid was aided by a none other than the...

Joni Ernst is no stranger to hogs, and she wants you to know it. On the heels of the zeitgeist-wheelie-ing March ad that featured the Republican Senate candidate bragging about her hog-castrating past,...

I have a friend. His name is Kuper. He is white and knows more about Korean pop culture than I do. It can be both bemusing and embarrassing to meet a person who knows more about your culture than you...

It wasn’t that long ago that the effects of climate change, referred to then as global warming by nonscientists, were something that “our children” would need to worry about. The argument...