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....

Partisanship is detrimental to an effective democracy. Political district-mapping, or gerrymandering, can be used as a mechanism to minimize the effect of such political polarity. States should look...

Mitt Romney just can't shake his difficulty attracting conservatives. And that reality is undercutting his effort to cast himself as the inevitable Republican presidential nominee and prolonging a race...

There are a lot of people in the public and Iowa City government who are wondering what the hell is going on with Occupy Iowa City and the Occupation at College Green Park. As I am hereby just now deciding...

A bit of trivia for your day: When deciding how long a course should be, the Scots decided it should be just enough to finish a fifth of Scotch at one shot per hole — or 18. Take 18, multiply by...

Editor's note: The following is a post from uiabroad.com, a collection of stories from University of Iowa students studying abroad. UI junior Michele Raymer is studying in Florence, Italy, this semester. Running...

So you are getting ready to move into your new apartment. You've done your research, found a nice place in a good neighborhood, and the landlord seems to keep the property in tip-top shape. As the...

Listed last on the University of Iowa Student Government's platform for the school year is "Communication and Transparency." Three bullet-points were filed under the subtitle: "All legislation...

(No, I do not lie awake in bed during these long winter nights, replaying over and over the sight of Wes Welker, New England's sure-handed sage of pass receiving, dropping the ball in the wide-open...

Because of diversity training, the University of Iowa Student Government is now a stronger organization. On Jan. 21, more than 40 UISG members gathered to celebrate our differences and learn about one...

No I nearly threw the remote at the television when I saw the single-digit percentage of Nevada's 18 to 24 population who voted in the GOP primary. The youth are virtually inactive in our national...

Amid the cries from local parents for public-school reform, Iowa City school administrators should re-evaluate their educational strategies and use a recent Harvard study as a model for change. After...