I recently discovered that the government could be logging my calls and tracking my Google searches. It could be watching my Skype chats and thumbing through my emails. My reaction upon learning that...

Summer is finally here. Now, instead of working out at the gym, I can go on my daily runs outside and enjoy the fresh air (Who am I kidding? I never run … or go to the gym). I can, however, sit on the...

I’ve got the column space on the last day of the semester, so I’m obligated to say goodbye for now on behalf of this page and the paper. “Goodbye for now; see you on June 10.”...

I’m graduating this weekend. Today is the last day that I will be a student at the University of Iowa, the last day I will live in Iowa City, and the last day I will reluctantly call myself a Hawkeye....

A crisis, calamitous in scope and effect, has befallen Iowa City, eroding a cherished and lauded tradition, rocking the very foundation of the identity of this town: the city zoning code has been amended;...

The Iowa City City Council voted 6-1 on Tuesday evening to approve a request from the Iowa City police to apply for federal funding to install armed Student Resource Officers in the city’s two public...

I like evidence. It usually helps me decide where something sits on the vast spectrum of horrible to wonderful. But not today. Today, it leads me to agnosticism: a great big who-the-hell-knows. Starting...

They call me an “intellectual” — you know, one of those guys who can type words into a word processor with relative ease and get a relatively mediocre response. I say this not to garner sympathy...

The member of Iowa’s Congressional delegation with the most influence in the current immigration debate isn’t the outspoken Republican Rep. Steve King, who on Tuesday said at a press conference...

It’s that time of year again. We trudged through “dead week,” which for a lot of us was not very dead after all because of papers, projects, and oh, the fact that we still pretty much...

A few days ago, I wrote about the visibility and misunderstanding of feminism. Many people have inaccurate ideas about what feminism is. I just found out yesterday that I’m not the only one in...

Republicans and Democrats in the Iowa Legislature have been creating compromises on reforms to K-12 education in recent months, but disagreements on whether to change homeschooling regulations have stalled...