The Florida justice system is no stranger to media attention, to be sure, most recently for two female minors who were charged with felonies — they are accused with persistently tormenting a classmate...

I’m not used to celebrating Halloween, but this year my friends forced me to get into it. So I decided to go shopping for a costume. To my surprise [well, not really, because I was expecting it]...

The 40-hour workweek seems to have gone out the window for the state’s regent-school faculties. The state Board of Regents released a report this week that shows that University of Iowa faculty members...

It’s not every day that one person’s small slip-up grabs national, even international headlines. Enter the extremely unfortunate case of a University of Iowa teaching assistant who meant to...

The independent film 12 Years A Slave, the story of a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, premièred in select cities Oct. 18. While I appreciate a movie that genuinely tackles...

Imagine Iowa without agriculture. Suppose the state’s soil, which has been prized for its fertility since the first French explorers arrived here in the late 1600s, turned to sand. It would destroy...

This country is overflowing with laws and policies that are, to put it mildly, lousy, wrongheaded, detrimental, idiotic, destructive, ruinous, and just plain awful. On every issue from climate change to...

On Oct. 18, the Emma Goldman Clinic — located at 227 N. Dubuque St. — celebrated its 40th anniversary. The clinic, named after the early 20th-century American feminist anarchist, opened its doors eight...

In this day and age, it seems easier to get something done online than it is to do in the physical world. Buying airplane tickets? Ordering a pizza? Emptying your bank account on Amazon? It’s all...

In their guest opinion Monday, the UI College Republicans accused me of being a lot of things: a “far-left” Democrat, a mortgager of “our children’s future,” an intellectually...

Mention group work to the average student, and you’re bound to get a less than enthusiastic response. When the announcement for a group project is made in class, take in the quiet discomfort that engulfs...

For better or worse, globalization is an unstoppable force that will lead to giant economic upheavals, complete with its own set of winners and losers. To keep students on the winning side of globalization,...