I entered an expensive watch store on Michigan Avenue. Even though I was with my parents, that didn’t stop us from receiving stares from the store clerks. In their eyes, we were a problem. Recently,...

If the United States and other developed nations’ education systems were engaged in a fierce round of gladiatorial combat, the American side would have been gutted long ago as Japan and South Korea duke...

In a city nearly $280 million in debt, eight City Council candidates and four mayoral candidates are vying for the chance to put their visions into place. The Coralville municipal election will take place...

I’m sitting in my room; it’s pitch black except for glow of the television screen. On that screen lies a grotesque monster, tan, naked, with eyes on his hands, and mouth full of blood and razor...

I think I speak for a fair number of people when I say that I have no idea what Halloween actually signifies. I associate Halloween with Throwback Thursday photos of me in my Baby Bop or pumpkin costumes,...

It’s widely believed that part of the source of the booming cost of higher education is a race for prestige. The argument goes that universities are mainly interested in one-upping each other, and...

Thankfully, for a number of years after he assaulted Rihanna, we heard relatively little of the young, successful, and violent pop-music artist Chris Brown. However, after a flash of publicity from all...

On Oct. 24, police in Des Moines arrested a couple for child endangerment. They had been raising their child in an unheated garage in which, at the time of their arrest, the temperature was 42 degrees. The...

In heaven there are no beards, that’s why we wear them here. Not to talk about baseball or anything, because this is Hawkeye country, and all eyes are focused on the “riddle, wrapped in a...

K-12 students in the United States often learn about national history, then move on to European or world history, sometimes going to college and learning about other specific parts of the world, but all...

Since its rollout on Oct. 1, healthcare.gov has been a well-documented, thoroughly depressing, Hindenburgian disappointment. The online hub touted as an easy, one-stop destination for buying public or...

In 1999, approximately two people out of every 100,000 in Iowa died from prescription-drug overdoses. The problem, and the public effort against it, was relatively minor in scale. But from 1999 to 2010...