It happens every time there’s a mass shooting. Politicians talk in vague rhetoric about how the mental-health-care system is broken and television media will have discussions on how to stop these,...

The U.S. Senate on Nov. 7 approved the Employment Nondiscrimination Act  by a bipartisan vote of 64-32. The bill would ban workplace discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation....

Over the past few years, unemployment has been improving, at a snail’s pace, but improving nonetheless. Trends in the official unemployment rate and other economic indicators seem to support this narrative. The...

If the Obama administration ran global warming, we’d get winter three weeks early. Hmm. That white stuff all over the ground on Monday wasn’t cocaine. Not that I know, exactly, what cocaine...

U.S. Army (538,128), U.S. Navy (332,832), U.S. Marine Corps (194,912), U.S. Air Force (328,439), U.S. Coast Guard (42,331). In these five branches of the United States military there are nearly 1.5 million...

The University of Iowa and its governing bodies have consistently made efforts to draw Iowa students, such as a comparatively low in-state tuition that may be frozen by the state Board of Regents this...

For a society so adept at categorizing people, we sure do have a tough time deciding when exactly young people become adults. Consider the 21-ordinance debate, which came to a merciful end last week but...

Like many Americans, I was initially very skeptical about Obamacare. I thought it was designed with too much idealism and grand ideas while sorely lacking in pragmatism. In order to get the act passed...

I live in the margins of a page. It is a peculiar space to reside in, but I presume we are kept here to uphold the status quo. Those of us who live here are often ignored, even muted. I suppose white...

Between 2001 and 2013, the defense budget for the federal government nearly doubled from $287 billion to $530 billion per year, a statistic made all the more staggering by those numbers not including the...

People like to think they’re rational, in control, and their beliefs make sense. I like to think so, too. As a journalist and a researcher, I’d like to think that I can follow the evidence and my opinion...

Children learn amazingly fast. Walking, talking, reading, writing, and counting are just a few of the basic skills they learn within just the first few years of life. It underlines just how powerful and...