Today marks the opening of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a new regulatory body intended to give consumers a voice against powerful financial firms. But the present version of the bureau...

Refreshing as it is in these days of political double-speak to see a proposal for radical change expressed so candidly, former Regent Michael Gartner's bluntness renders it easy to see how his agenda threatens...

With power struggles between the Legislature and the state Board of Regents coming to a head after a turbulent year, former Regent Michael Gartner is weighing in on the real problem with Iowa's public...

Call it the imperial governorship. As President Obama cements — and, at times, expands — the executive power gains achieved under the Bush imperial presidency, Iowans are witnessing their own executive...

Iowa City's drinking culture has gone too far. City and university leaders' attempts to curb dangerous consumption have been well-intentioned but have not gone nearly far enough. The city's 21-and-older...

Transparency has been a big-name issue since President Obama's campaign. We have heard the most about transparency being applied to financial transactions of the government, but there is another important...

Across eastern Iowa, the damage from the 2008 flood is still visible, and the memories are still fresh. Iowa City and Johnson County officials are working both to rebuild and to prepare for future flooding....

We're not going to talk about the weather, because that would just be a lot of hot air, and there's plenty of that going around without our help. Besides, human beings, I have on good authority, have...

YES Tuition for 131 in-state students; 7,358 copies of an American economic history textbook; three houses on Dodge Street. These are all things that could be purchased for $883,000, the amount of money...

"The whites didn't bring homosexuality [to Africa] … they brought homophobia," a gay Ugandan man quips to Channel 4's Sorious Samura as they stand surrounded by church-goers at an outdoor anti-homosexuality...

It's been a good month for the much-maligned, often misunderstood principle of church-state separation. A whopping 67 percent of Americans agree that the First Amendment "requires a clear separation...

With the resignation from their leadership positions of state Board of Regents' President David Miles and President Pro Tem Jack Evans, it's going to be much easier to slash funds for Iowa's public universities....