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...

Want to know how to reverse the unemployment trend in America? Just ask Apple. There is a brilliant feature in the New York Times from Jan. 21 that explained, "How the United States lost out on...

Ever since President Barack Obama achieved national and global stardom, many have struggled to understand his thinking process. In fact, the Tea Party has its own guidebook on how Obama thinks. Newt...

We have a rule in journalism that if you're not a public figure and you're not breaking the law, we'll mostly leave you alone. The idea is that private citizens, minding their own business, don't likely...

Choirs of dissenters sing their displeasure at the Iowa Republican Party for its inefficiency with the delayed release of the final results of the caucuses, which finally declared former Sen. Rick Santorum...

Some might argue English is slowly dying, but it's not dead. The University of Iowa is trying to do its part in reviving a language perpetually plagued by txtspk, curse words, and improper use of semicolons. The...

The Iowa Legislature and Gov. Terry Branstad should heed the results of an ongoing study on the construction of a passenger rail system connecting local cities to the Chicago area and accept federal...

As we all know (well, at least those of us who have a glancing acquaintanceship with science), the Republican candidates for Obama catcher know nothing about science — or, at least, they profess to...

I do not use the Iowa City bus-system, but for the past two years I have seen our community struggle to understand and deal with disturbances outside the Old Capitol Town Center: crowds of youth waiting...