"It's a doozy." It's been two weeks since Groundhog Day and a quick glance at the listed predictions of all the weather-projecting rodents seems to offer a near consensus that spring will arrive...

The Iowa Senate Republicans recently proposed to reinstate the state's death penalty for those who kill a child in commission with rape or kidnapping. Senate File 2095 is not fiscally viable, is not...

With Chinese enrollment in Iowa universities skyrocketing and a major Chinese diplomatic visit underway this week in Iowa, Chinese-Iowa relations have recently manifested themselves in a view yet unprecedented....

Much is being said today, in both social and high-school circles, of so-called Tiger Moms and overprotective (or helicopter) parents. My wife and I were the very antithesis of all that. As parents,...

Many graduating college students are looking for some postgraduation experience before entering the inevitable fate we recognize as the workforce. Many students will turn to volunteer work by joining...

The University of Iowa Memes page was apparently shut down by Facebook administrators last week for violating the site's terms of use. Before the shutdown, though, the page attracted more than 6,000...

I believe President Obama needs a civics lesson. Or maybe he needs some new advisers that can calculate political risk well. Take your pick. The contraception mandate fiasco boggles my mind. It seems...

When bar-hopping or window-shopping in downtown Iowa City, strolling by an idling police cruiser on an evening is a common occurrence. What seems to be even stranger is that, for the most part, the...

Benjamin Franklin, my friendly iGoogle app tells me, slept in four beds per night. (OK, it's probably not really an app. I just used that word to make it seem as if I, too, live in the 21st century...

Q: When are my taxes due? With the beginning of each year comes the time to file taxes. This year, taxes are due on April 17. Q: Can I file for free through the IRS? Yes. Starting Jan. 17, the IRS...

Last week, the University of Iowa Student Government passed a resolution stating its stance against a bill in the Iowa Legislature on voter identification. The bill would require identification that...

If we as Americans truly believe that the states serve as laboratories of democracy and leaders in policy innovation, we must be willing to accept the lessons learned from state-policy experiments....