A 'plus-sized' beef with Union So there I was, drinking water and snacking on unprocessed foods, when I came across this article online. A self-described "plus-sized" UI junior named Jordan...

OK, let's get a few things straight. I know we are all up in arms about the ridiculous amount of lard going around: We're all chewing the fat, flapping our gums, making sure everyone can have their just...

Every time I hear someone say that "nearly 50 percent" of Americans pay no federal income tax, I cannot help but wonder why it is they have introduced that statistic into the discussion. Was...

A new statewide alert system that notifies victims when authorities have served a protective order is now fully operational, Attorney General Tom Miller has announced. The system, called the Iowa Protective...

The longest war in American history drags on in its eleventh year at a cost of $300 million per day, with no prospect of progress. The costs go well beyond the waste of U.S. taxpayers' money: 1,954 U.S....

I've got a bone to pick with my adviser: Let me register for classes when I'm ready to register. As a sophomore, I've been through the process five times now, and it never seems to go smoothly. The issue...

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...