Iowa Republicans have two choices. Sure, there are dozens of people qualified to take over for Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn, who announced Tuesday he plans to step down this month....

We, the Board of Friends of International Students, are sad to suddenly lose the leadership of former Associate Dean Scott King. In November 2011, Friends of International Students celebrated its 40th...

There is no more primal instinct than the one that drives parents to care for their children. The extraordinary lengths parents will go when the well-being of their children is at risk can be awe-inspiring...

In a Newt Gingrich rally in a Sarasota, Fla., airplane hangar the other day, the Washington Postreports, the speaker warming up the crowd before the former Speaker spoke (you think you're confused)...

Once a year, the floor of the IMU Main Ballroom on the University of Iowa campus shakes with the power of thousands of dancing feet. They stomp, shuffle, hop, and jump — not just for joy, but for...

Coralville's diminishing water supply is not a game to be hosed around with, but only weeks after a report was released describing depleting water resources, firefighters gathered for the annual Winter...

Q: Why are recess appointments in the news? A. On Jan. 4, President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate and appointed Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three members...

Dressed like Kim Jong Il and carrying a box of Franzia (don't ask), I strolled through a snowy College Green Park with a small group of friends and acquaintances. "People are still doing that?"...

Yes I was listening to John Lennon's classic utopian ballad "Imagine," searching for some metaphor to figure out what is the exact problem with tax incremental financing, more commonly known...

We are writing to recognize the contributions that Scott King has made to the University of Iowa. For the past nine years, Scott has served as an assistant dean and the director of the Office of International...

Adolf Hitler issued the Nuremburg Laws in 1935, declaring both Jews and Romani (which were then known as Gypsies in Europe and the United States) were ineligible to be citizens in the Reich because...

Running for major political office is often compared to "running the gauntlet." The term stems from the punitive act of forcing a person to run between two parallel columns of armed men who...