We take the recent decision of the national American Association of University Professors to undertake a formal investigation of the University of Northern Iowa and the possibility of censure for our sister...

"Barstow is a popular tourist destination," NPR tells me confidently. In that public-radio sort of tone. NPR must figure I've never lived in Southern California, have never spent any time in...

I was struck by an article posted on the Huffington Post a while back bemoaning President Obama's weakness as a negotiator. By no means was this article unique in its tone. In fact, it is really just...

Hey prof, grade my essay? There's (kind of) an app for that. The e-Rater, an automated essay-grading system developed by the Educational Testing Service, can grade up to 16,000 essays a minute. For educators...

The beating heart of modern Republican rhetoric is the argument that there is nothing more dangerous than a tax increase. This thinking, however rhetorically effective, is fundamentally wrong. Furthermore,...

Mitt Romney likes to talk on the campaign trail about how his father "grew up poor," but that's not the whole story. The father of the presumptive Republican nominee, George Romney, grew up...

Today, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will visit Fort Stewart in Georgia, where the president will sign an executive order to help ensure all of America's service members, veterans, spouses,...

In this fast-paced Iowa City life of waking up hungover all the time, one's schedule can fill up quickly. Hitting the snooze button can take up to four hours, and then there's that whole eating thing,...

Holding that "no matter what one makes of associational rights, friendship cannot have greater status than political speech," the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that an Illinois...

Fifty years ago, college was a luxury. Back then, you could still graduate from high school and get a good paying job that would guarantee you a place in the middle class. Those days are gone. A postsecondary...

While health care gets most of the attention as an inflationary juggernaut — climbing inexorably upward in spite of public outrage and economic turmoil — health-care inflation wilts when compared with...

Earth Day has passed, but at the University of Iowa, Earth Week is in full swing. From the Sustainability Festival this Friday to the recent designation of the UI as an Arbor Day Foundation "Tree...