Occupy Iowa City start in early September 2011, when a few friends told the police that no, they would not leave the park. About four days later, the tents started to go up — and they kept going, all...

No Compared with most of the other nations of the world, America has a very forgiving society. We as a nation have made it possible for criminals to receive a second chance after serving time for the...

I'm sorry to inform you that Jerry Sandusky's possible 424 year sentence will be one served like the pills that could have came for his "histrionic personality disorder" — tightly contained,...

Amid the flap over what was supposedly wrong the U.S. Supreme Court's decision yesterday to throw out Montana's 100-year-old campaign-spending limits, can we take a moment to consider what was right about...

For the University of Iowa students who prefer drinking as their No. 1 activity, downtown Iowa City offers more than enough places to fulfill that desire. From Summit to Sports Column to Airliner to Union,...

On June 20, the greatest nation in the world successfully launched an Atlas 5 rocket to shuttle a spy satellite into space — which is totally awesome. More awesome yet was that the launch marked the...

Last week, 41 Iowa Republicans led by Dawn Pettengill, R-Mount Auburn, signed a petition delivered to the Iowa Department of Human Services. The petition demands that Human Services change its rules on...

So I decided I wanted to run for the Office of Being Mitt Romney. I'm not all that talented or smart, so it seemed like the perfect choice. It would be so much fun to be the Office of Being Mitt Romney....

Mitt Romney wants to improve his troubled standing among Latino voters while saying as little as possible about immigration. Events keep working against him. The Supreme Court's ruling Monday on Arizona's...

If any of you were alive in the past week (and by alive, I mean watched television) then you know about the bus monitor — the one in upstate New York who took a verbal beating from a school bus full...

Just how much should we worry about privacy? Nearly daily incidents demand that we as a society redraw the line between our private lives and our public personas. The "public" is that part of...

Eight of the 30 U.S. Agriculture Department secretaries have ties to Iowa. Three former Agriculture secretaries were born in Iowa, including Mike Johanns (Osage), Henry A. Wallace (near Orient), and Edwin...