Fade in: 1963. Your grandmother, 24-years-old, is blowing smoke rings on an airplane. Wide pan: 85 strangers marinating in a churning cloud of hot, poison breath. The question I struggle with when I think...

The Partnership for Alcohol Safety — the University of Iowa’s and the city of Iowa City’s joint project to reduce high-risk drinking — issued its annual report Wednesday, and it found substantial...

There is a belief in this country that is a product of skewed logic — and perhaps also fear — that the only solution to countering those who mean to do harm through unlawful and malevolent gun use...

It’s the night before your next big midterm, and you still have three chapters to study, a five-page paper to write, and an online quiz to take. There’s just one tiny problem: Everything and everyone...

A graduate student at the University of Iowa was killed in a Sunday night standoff with police; the incident began when 28-year-old Taleb Salameh reportedly began shooting at officers responding to a domestic-disturbance...

Whoever coined the phrase “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” clearly had a couple of screws loose. Individuals can tear someone down verbally just as quickly...

When asked about Iowans too poor to afford health insurance, Gov. Terry Branstad talks about health-care saving accounts, increasing co-pays, and people drinking at open bars at weddings. While it’s...

With tuition and the cost of living rising rapidly across the nation and the national student-loan debt totaling just under $1 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve, it is becoming increasingly important...

Sometimes, on late-night cable, there’s this “Star Trek” episode in which Republicans and Democrats join together to save the planet, and everyone lives happily ever after. Yeah, I know....

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has taken a great deal of criticism, primarily from Iowa Democrats, including Sen. Tom Harkin, for his refusal to accept the federal expansion of Medicaid provided for in the 2010...

It’s been 100 years since Alice Paul and tons of other women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Without those women, women today may still be unable to vote, much less run for office....

The contrast in excitement about the general election in November and the lack of same in the Johnson County Board of Supervisors special election on Tuesday couldn’t have been more stark. The former...