Immigrants in this country face a number of challenges. Beside people often fearing or automatically suspecting that because I’m an immigrant, I am in this country illegally, there are also various...

Like many college girls and boys — whether they’ll admit it or not — I tuned in to the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Tuesday night. As expected, the show brought with it streams...

As more and more states and municipalities test the waters of legalizing medical marijuana, some have argued that Iowa’s conservative roots would prevent a similar effort from getting through the Legislature....

Saturday will mark the first anniversary of one of the most tragic events in my lifetime. On Dec. 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook Elementary heavily armed, and proceeded to kill 20...

In the midst of recent fast-food “walk-offs,” the public briefly took to its latest spectator sport: discussing potential minimum-wage increases. As expected, proponents and opponents presented...

Thought you only had to worry about the growing American surveillance state from the likes of the National Security Agency? Think again. The Des Moines Register reported on Sunday that there are signs...

Hello, NSA, I’m not talking about you again. For one thing, you remember everything I say. I mean, in a normal relationship, you wouldn’t remember half the things I say. (And that’s...

Activism today has taken a back seat to taking a seat. With the exception of the unorganized mess we called the Occupy Movement, it appears that the days of collecting a group of people to take a stand,...

The minimum wage, first set in America in 1938 by the Fair Labor Standards Act, has long been characterized as a balancing act between fairness for employees and viability for employers. But in recent...

The news of the death of Nelson Mandela, the legendary anti-apartheid activist and former president of South Africa, brought with it a flurry of responses from American political writers extolling the...

When Amazon announced Dec. 1 it would begin offering drone delivery as an option for shoppers in the future, the first reaction in my mind was disbelief. Was this an “article” from The Onion...

Recent debates over the federal budget and income inequality have raised a number of questions about the future of America’s social safety-net programs — Social Security and Medicare, most notably....