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...

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?"...

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...

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...

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...