As we slog along through this winter (which feels longer than the Todd Lickliter Era, which seemed like centuries), you’ll be disappointed to learn that walking a mile in the Iowa City wind chills...

While President Obama is expected to address national immigration reform in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, a viable solution to this enduring problem could still be a long ways away. Congress...

What’s your prejudice? All people have at least one stereotype that they religiously believe in — as silly and narrow-minded as it may be. Some of us are brave enough to admit our biases, and some...

On Jan. 25, in Columbia, Md., a 19-year-old male walked into the Mall of Columbia with a 12-gauge shotgun and killed two people before turning the gun on himself. A week ago, an engineering student at...

If you’re haggling with a car salesman, it’s a bad idea to punch him in the face in the middle of your negotiations. He will probably be irked, and it will be pretty hard to persuade him not...

On Jan. 12, I didn’t watch the Golden Globes. It wasn’t because I’m a young adult who supposedly had better things to do, but because I didn’t want to spend my evening frustrated...

There are three things my dad has always preached to me, “Find your passion, find your voice, seek an audience.” More or less, these were the same three points iterated to me on Monday during...

Drivers in Iowa are subject to one of the weakest sets of driving-safety laws in the country, according to a report released Wednesday from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. The annual report...

A phrase currently floating around the infinite abyss that is the Internet recently caught my eye: “wealth addiction.” I tend to think of addiction as a habit that is above all physically...

Part of the reason I'm running for Johnson County county attorney is because that's the position that can end the local criminal-justice system's current overaggressiveness toward young people. Working...

While we may like to pretend otherwise, education is far from “the great equalizer” that was the dream of famed education reformer Horace Mann. Rather, education in the United States has increasingly...

It’s January, which means that Iowa’s hilariously brief four-month legislative session has thankfully begun. Now, if I were a hack, I would insert a cynical joke here about how the politicians of...