Author J.K. Rowling made headlines this week when she said she thought Hermione Granger should have married Harry Potter, not Ron Weasley? Did she make a mistake or get it right the first time? She made...

The footage showed an event like something you’d expect from an elite-forces operation: a group of armed men in riot gear advancing slowly on a building, then breaking open a door with a battering...

One of my fondest, albeit strangest, memories of my time at Iowa thus far occurred late in the evening following this year’s Iowa-Wisconsin football game. I was enjoying my Panchero’s burrito...

You’ve probably already seen Coca-Cola’s multilingual ad “America the Beautiful,” which aired Sunday night during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVIII. If you haven’t,...

The Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday to approve a new farm bill that will allocate nearly $1 trillion in tax dollars over the next 10 years. The bill, which passed the House handily last week and comes after...

Late last month, former (and potentially future) presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had some pretty uplifting remarks to make about women at the annual meeting of the Republican National Committee. According...

This is not about my being from Texas. OK, it’s completely about my being from Texas. Iowa chose to expand its Medicaid program. Texas did not. When Obama called for health-care reform, I stood by...

It goes without saying that one of the cornerstones of a functioning, modern, liberal democracy is universal suffrage. However, it appears that headlines across the state of Iowa are ringing with actions...

You probably, given that you’re an intelligent, highly perceptive person who probably even flosses, have noticed that the Canadian tundra has moved in and plans to stay until May or so. (According...

There is a series of erroneous assumptions that form the minimum-wage argument, many of which President Obama cited in his State of the Union address in which he called for an increase to $10.10. Raising...

President Obama’s State of the Union Address last week marked a major shift in his approach to the Affordable Care Act: talk about it more. The president spent about five minutes of airtime, 7 percent...

As the world groggily arises out of its post-Super Bowl hangover, with the aid of sunglasses and Alka-Seltzer and begins the long trek back to work, an issue has emerged near Chicago, one of the major...