For $50, the Iowa Department of Transportation will fix you up with an eye-catching black and gold University of Iowa Hawkeyes specialty license plate. For $25 you can get a specialty plate promoting cancer...

Earlier this month, in an aggressive political move, President Obama nominated three high-profile lawyers to fill the vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The president’s...

Armed drones (unmanned aerial vehicles used to kill enemy combatants) are the most recent military development that have distanced Americans from the wars their government wages. The last time a significant...

This past week, I registered for a half-Ironman triathlon in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The race involves a 1.2-mile swim in splendid Lake Michigan, a 56-mile bike portion along the lakefront, and a 13.1-mile...

The federal government stands to make more than $50 billion in profits on student-loan debt in fiscal 2013, according to a projection released by the Congressional Budget Office in May. This projection...

Joining the military is a dangerous endeavor. The risk of injury and death in combat, especially in the last decade with two wars, is more than enough to make some individuals think twice about joining...

So suddenly (well, about as suddenly as the Moon changes, and yes, I realize that the Moon doesn’t really change, our perception of it changes, which might be what we mean when we say change we can...

A federal judge ruled last week that two interns who worked on Fox Searchlight’s movie Black Swan are considered to be Fox Searchlight employees and must be adequately compensated for their work....

On the morning of June 13, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, alerted 16,400 of his closest Twitter friends (of which I am one) to a particularly stunning piece of news: his office had been overrun by — you won’t...

Not too long ago, I was at the Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center with a friend. We were messing around at the Ping-Pong tables, hitting balls around and leaving them haphazardly scattered on the...

On Thursday, in a blow to many genetic drug monopolies, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that sections of the human genome may not be patented. The court’s ruling — that patents on naturally...

In 2004, then-Sen. Barack Obama gave a celebrated speech to the Democratic National Convention. But we are now in the second term of Obama’s presidency. There is no doubt whether Obama has an oratorical...