“Ma’am, the helicopter is about to leave. Where do you want it to go?” asked the officer. “It needs to go to Iowa City. She needs to go to the University of Iowa Children’s...

E-cigarettes, the battery-powered and somewhat disappointing little brother to the traditional cigarette, is going to facE some severe restrictions in the coming months. In a 241-page proposal released...

What’s in a name? If you’re a New York City lawmaker, apparently not much. Brought to you by the body that tried to take away large-sized sodas, the NYC City Council also added e-cigarettes...

In 1953, just four years after graduating from the University of Iowa, a young man put a $5 check into an envelope and mailed the donation to his alma mater. With that action, he set into motion what has...

My roots in education in Iowa are deep. My parents — both teachers — raised my sister and me in Fairfax, not far from the University of Iowa. One of their favorite sayings was: You can’t ever...

On Wednesday, an Iowa Senate panel took an important step toward combating the corruption and cronyism that seems of late to have infected Iowa politics as much as it has affected politics everywhere....

Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act changed parts of our health-care system that were really stupid. It seems backward, arguably barbaric, that health-insurance companies could deny coverage because...

Backpacks serve many uses. Among books, pens, lunches, and laptops, nothing is more emblematic of a college student’s gear than the bags they seem to carry everywhere. They hold the weight of a day...

There once was a flier handed out in the Ukraine outside of a synagogue. The flier required all Jews over the age of 16 to register their identities along with their property and vehicle ownership; should...

As I was growing up, my family did not have the resources to provide much financial support to charities. My father, however, believed in volunteering and served on the School Board and in local government...

It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and many today would make the case that civil rights are a concern of the 20th century. We live in a post-racial society, this line of reasoning...

In 1944, Raphael Lemkin, a balding, mild-mannered Polish lawyer born to a Jewish family at the beginning of the 20th century, had a problem. He was studying a crime that did not have a word. A crime that...