It's been a rough couple weeks for Republicans. They were all so excited about Herman Cain. They thought they had a real maverick, and he was finally gaining some steam, butting heads in the polls...

The University of Iowa Cambuses need to run longer. Yes, I know it will be expensive. Yes, I know that it might be hard to find drivers for a midnight to 3 a.m. shift. However, some buses, like the...

It looks as if the do-nothing Congress might actually get something done through common-ground on education reform — well, next year, anyway. Last week, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, announced that...

Elevators to space; cars that can drive themselves; refrigerators that can order new shipments of food when supplies run short. In light of a new project on behalf of one of the world's fastest-expanding...

I am the supervising attorney at Student Legal Services, and I wish to respond some inaccuracies in an article titled "Tailgate legal advice," which was printed in The Daily Iowan on Oct....

Through December, the Iowa City police are projected to spend nearly $4,500 per every pound of marijuana seized on Interstate 80. This figure does not account for detainment costs or opportunity costs,...

Yes (as the incomparable James Joyce once started a famous sentence that went on for several days, even though it was all the same day — note to undergrads: If you must steal, steal from incomparable...

A bit of wisdom attributed to 16th-century philosopher Sir Francis Bacon has nearly become a cliché in today's 21st-century information age: Knowledge is power. The Internet and widespread, user-friendly...

No It doesn't matter how much something bothers you — you should not infringe on someone else's rights. I don't think we have to argue the side-effects of smoking: It causes cancer, heart problems,...

The financial collapse of late-2008 has left many in the United States scratching their heads. How did something like this happen? What are the origins of this mess? What exactly can we do to fix it?...

Yes Finally, there's imminent reason to beware the Occupy movement — but it's not the usual suspects the Iowa caucuses should take every security measure against. Oh, no. It's much more serious...

We live in the United States of Amnesia. Or so it would seem. Only months after NATO and American operations in Libya abated, no one seems to remember or care. On Nov. 5, a Des Moines Register poll...