It looks like Georgia businessman Herman Cain will drop out of the Iowa caucus race soon. Cain isn't the brains of the party, and he probably wouldn't have ended up the candidate anyway. Still, the...

Learning languages early in childhood is vital to the growth of our students. School districts should start as early as elementary school to implement programs in order to provide students with the...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's social-media staff isn't doing him any favors. Taking exception when they came across a disrespectful tweet by a suburban Kansas City high-school senior participating in...

Controversy continually surrounds the prospect of administering vaccines to America's youth. Recent efforts to combat the human papillomavirus, and ultimately cervical cancer, through vaccination have...

According to a recent survey, the BBC reports, the good news is that the United States is pretty much the only nation whose politicians don't believe that humans create global-climate change — or...

Talking about the "Occupy" movement, a guy I know said, "I admire it, but it's not very well-defined; sounds more like a class warfare complaint." Let's juxtapose that comment...

Bars with food-related exemptions to the 21-ordinance should be required to keep their kitchens open until the entire bar closes. The city currently allows establishments that make a certain percentage...

Unless you've been trying to avoid the subject for the last year, you probably know that American budget reform has become something of a train wreck, especially when it comes to any discussion over...

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes … or should I? I honestly see most revolutions as cancerous mutations in our societal genome. Revolutions are extreme and sporadic...

The Monday night HawkAlert — which warned people of a person near the University of Iowa campus with a weapon posing a possible threat to people's safety — instructed recipients to stay in their...

UI Republicans: End ethanol subsidies "Fields of Opportunities" is plastered across every sign and burned into every retina of those that enter our great state. To Iowa's credit, this tacky...

Yes It is definitely worth it to leave and miss class today to participate in Occupy Iowa City's Walkout — besides, that's kind of the point. Students are not just leaving class for the purpose...