Alta Gracia is the first-ever factory making college apparel that truly respects its workers’ rights by paying them a living wage and giving them a voice on the job. For more than a decade, workers in...

Even if students know their rights, an Iowa City ordinance can have them out with three strikes. Evicted, specifically. The Feb. 21 “Don’t Get Evicted” lecture, an annual event held by Student...

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that spring. Is what I’m thinking as I clang away at the ice on my sidewalk with this hunk of steel thingy. The iceman cometh, says Eugene O’Neill. Easy...

I’m sure I’m not alone in my amazement that the protests in Wisconsin are continuing for the 13th day, spreading to other states, and holding the attention of the mainstream media all the while. Wrong....

YES Cameras deter crime the way storefront graffiti deters customers. Iowa City’s Pedestrian Mall is arguably the best-known and most attractive three blocks in the state. It’s the ideal district...

“Maybe you can share more one-on-one later, if someone asks.” This is what I was told in early fall semester when I was ecstatic about volunteering to help with bone-marrow donation booths around...

Over the past week, Wisconsin public employees have flocked to Madison to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill. Teachers have walked out of their classrooms, senators have fled the state, and...

Don’t know much about U.S. history and politics? You’re not alone. These usually stale and erudite topics have been increasingly relegated to the academic realm, the sole bastion of scholars in endless...

I was hopeful, maybe naïvely so. While Terry Branstad wasn’t my first choice for governor, his record on higher education wasn’t abhorrent. And Chet Culver, the equivocating embodiment of milquetoast...

YES Revamp our electoral system? It might be better than you think. Eleven years after an election that went with the electors (and ultimately, the Supreme Court) instead of the popular vote (and gave...

Some students at the University of Iowa are fortunate enough to be unaware of Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty is the former governor of my home state of Minnesota and a 2012 Republican presidential hopeful. He’s...

Imagine a readily available source of energy that could produce electricity for our homes and businesses, right where we live and work. Solar energy could be the next new engine of job creation for Iowans,...