This election season, there are a great many issues facing every American voter, and the choice between the two major political parties is so stark a contrast that many voters are concerned there is not...

I always like to pick a favorite stump catch phrase during election season. It makes for a good drinking game during a long convention keynote. But my favorite ridiculous stump isn’t Mitt Romney’s...

The University of Iowa College Republicans will set up shop on the Pentacrest every Monday and Tuesday in September as part of a wider push by the College Republican National Committee to increase participation...

City officials want to renew Iowa City’s Bicycle Friendly Community designation this winter, and they are enthusiastically hoping to move up from the town’s current bronze level to a silver-level...

We campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo used to say, but we govern in prose. That was how the then-New York governor explained the gap between his soaring speeches and the more prosaic product of his government,...

In 1974, I was elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat serving a predominately Republican district in northwest Iowa. I served 12 years, and during that time, Republicans and Democrats still...

The University of Iowa is a great school for many reasons, but it has a special notoriety for the wide availability of alcohol and, more recently, the rise in the number of house parties as well as an...

What does a square sound like? Is what the 4-year-old (youngest) daughter of a friend of mine asked her. I’m a failure as a mother, she told me. But, of course, she was joking about herself, the way...

At the beginning of the fall semester, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership sent out an email trying to gather students who may be interested in starting a new sorority comprising lesbian,...

University of Iowa President Sally Mason told The Daily Iowan Tuesday that she doesn’t “understand the obsessive attention” being paid by some concerned parties to the university’s...

The Pentagon estimates that nearly 19,000 women were victims of sexual assault in the armed forces last year. Despite there being just over 3,000 reported cases, military officials know that the issue...

A man was charged last week for stealing a phone at Union Bar in January and posting several naked pictures of a woman that he found on the phone to the woman’s Facebook wall in an attempt to blackmail...