This week, Congress is expected to vote on a measure to authorize President Obama to launch an attack on Syria, in response to the use of deadly sarin gas in Syria’s two-year civil war. Strong opposition...

Over the past century or two, labor unions brought about several positive changes: better safety standards, eight-hour workdays, health-insurance benefits, pensions, and many other aspects of the workplace...

After a long wait, we may soon get to welcome parts of rural Iowa to the late-20th century. Gov. Terry Branstad has decided that the state cannot let our fellows in the vast Iowa hinterland continue living...

The beginning of the school year has announced itself again with swarms of solicitors on the Pentacrest passing out handy little coupon books, as local businesses are aware that most college students take...

The political conversation in the United States and many other Western countries has been dominated in recent weeks by the horrific revelations that Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad likely used chemical...

On Aug. 29, the U.S. Justice Department announced that federal prosecutors would not target state laws allowing for the use of marijuana for personal or medical reasons, leaving cannabis activists across...

When Bikini Bottom’s residents were faced with the existential threat of an Alaskan Bull Worm speeding toward the city limits, Patrick Star knew just what to do. “We should take Bikini Bottom”...

Since 1979, the Ames Straw Poll has been held in the late summer before the Iowa caucuses, as a presidential poll and fundraiser for the Iowa GOP. Candidates typically pay to set up tents complete with...

While the summer was slowly dissolving, one hour, one day, one month at a time, I talked with many of my friends about the dread we were feeling, facing the beginning of a new school year. Dread at the...

Despite the fact that the Aug. 31 loss to Northern Illinois University was Iowa’s first season-opening loss in more than the decade, the game was overshadowed by a particularly rowdy Iowa fan whose drunken...

Last week marked the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., along with several other civil-rights leaders, spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial....

Beau, the NSA has noticed you tend to wear non-matching socks. Whassup with that? The NSA knows how to say “Whassup”? Whassup with that? We listen. Very carefully. So I’ve heard. But...