UISG held its first diversity summit on March 25 in an attempt to address diversity issues pertaining to students at the University of Iowa. It was organized by students, for students, to ensure that...

The track record of the United States' military presence in Afghanistan has been less than stellar for longer than any of us would care to remember, but headlines in recent months have had me humming my...

Do you have a child in college? Is he or she renting an apartment or house? If so, have you reviewed the lease your child signed with the property's owners? If the answer to the first two questions is...

No In a recent legislative push  by Republicans, Iowa has moved one step closer to passing a stand-your-ground law proposed by Rep. Matt Windschitl, R-Missouri Valley. For those unfamiliar with these...

If you haven't heard, the state Board of Regents is having a hard time coming up with funding for the three state universities. On March 21, the Iowa House Appropriations Committee passed a proposed...

Vaunted as being one of the most intellectually serious members of Congress, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is again in the spotlight with the release of his fiscal 2013 budget. Not only does...

Welcome back to March. It missed you, too. (Well, OK; it was only for one day. But it was nice to see March again. For a day. Kind of like it's nice to see an old girlfriend again. For a day. (Not to...

Chances are pretty good you've enjoyed at least one meal today before reading the words here in front of you. Because in large measure of generations of hard-working farm families, Americans continue to...

America has been posed with a choice. As Republicans put it, a choice between competing "visions" of America. Nowhere are the two parties more diametrically opposed then when it comes to how...

Four days ago, the globe celebrated World Water Day 2012, and international governmental agencies slapped each other on their respective backs with congratulatory clinks of champagne glasses echoing in...

The renewal of the Violence Against Women Act remains uncertain because the majority of Republicans in the U.S. Senate continue to vocalize concerns against the new draft. Along with Sen. Orrin Hatch,...

Liberals regularly contend that conservatives are either unwilling, or unable, to acknowledge empirical evidence that exposes core conservative arguments to be patently false. However, two recent arguments...