Thomas Paine, the catalytic firebrand who set the American Revolution ablaze, saw the uprising as America’s chance to free itself from the transatlantic tether of British dominion and as an opportunity...

YES K2 is a relatively unknown substance whose effects should be extensively researched before becoming widely available on the market. Relying on infectious mixtures of psychotropic chemicals, synthetic...

In an event right out of an ’80s cyberpunk novel, Waterloo resident Laurelai Bailey found the FBI at her door last week, with a warrant to search her home for information on the high-profile hacking...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected California’s violent video-game law in part because of the imprecise social-science research linking violent video games to aggressiveness in children. Now if the court...

Two presidential-nomination contenders held events in eastern Iowa this week: Republican Michele Bachmann and Democrat Harry Braun. You almost definitely heard about the first, but unless you picked up...

Johnson County is about to be the site of Iowa’s third Food Council. Food Councils, which exist in Pottawattamie and Cass Counties, aim to integrate local food into the community, promoting the buying...

Are Republicans channeling their antiwar forefathers? With GOP presidential-nomination aspirants questioning President Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan and congressional Republicans voting...

YES Legislators can’t be accountable to the people if the people don’t know what they are doing. The Iowa Senate should grant public-record requests of correspondence to and from state legislators’...

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in announcing her “official” entry into the Republican presidential-nomination scrum in Waterloo Monday, stressed (and stressed and stressed and … well, you get the...

U.S. House Resolution 304, sponsored by Reps. Robert Dold, R-Ill., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and HR 306, sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Edward Royce, R-Calif., were introduced earlier...

University of Iowa officials were quick to endorse the results of a campus student-health survey by the National College Health Association, claiming the data indicated the success of initiatives such...

Now that summer is upon us, many are wondering how long the trends promulgated by the so-called “Arab Spring” will continue. Will last-ditch efforts to oust dictatorial regimes fizzle by July, or will...