YES While professionals such as journalist Tom Brokaw and attorney Arthur Neu have certainly contributed much hard work and knowledge to their fields, is this deserving of a doctorate degree? The University...

"Men in tights made this country what it is," says the BBC Radio announcer during BBC's interminable, bone-numbing coverage of some marriage in London last week (think C-SPAN with that "sophisticated"...

Thanks to the First Amendment, I'm free to write these words — and you're free to read them. But for about 84 percent of the approximately 6.9 billion people with whom we share this planet, that's not...

After tireless years of research, at least six years’ worth of teaching, and immeasurable preparation and planning, the best and the brightest in the professorial sphere are granted the holy grail of...

Being funny isn’t “presidential.” But once per year since 1920, presidents have cracked jokes to an audience and listened to their own roasts at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. This year,...

Lewin’s remarks honest, at least I think the responses to the controversy between Professor Ellen Lewin and the UI College Republicans miss a salient point. While I, no doubt, would be in the Republicans’...

Iowa City residents seem to have difficulty saying "no" to police officers. Over the past week, there have been 40 reported alcohol- or drug-related police citations to college-age persons in...

The revolution is upon us. Republican congressman Ron Paul, you see, announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee in Des Moines earlier this week. This is a different kind of revolution,...

I couldn't help but enjoy Bob Thompson's April 18 perspective on the false image of downtown that the Iowa City City Council seems intent to project on our reality. It was refreshing to see another Iowa...

YES Does Mailboxes of Iowa City have a second branch within walking distance of its downtown one? The answer is “no,” because the owners have at least an inkling of common sense. To a fiscal conservative...

President Barack Obama calls it “silliness,” and he’s right. But being right is not important to the so-called “birther” movement, which claims that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake, Obama...

West High students Josh Fortman, Alex Spragle, and Kevin Lam don’t usually attend School Board meetings, but on Tuesday evening, they joined the crowd spilling out the doors at the Iowa City School District’s...