The City Council’s proposal to hike snow emergency fines is cold. Iowa City officials want to raise the fines for parking violations during snow emergencies from $15 to $50. This move, they say, would...

The war in Afghanistan has cost us billions of dollars and countless lives. But what if there was a better way to address potential conflicts and looming national-security challenges on the front end —...

On Tuesday, the three-member county statutory committee — which consists of the auditor, treasurer, and recorder — whittled the field of 16 candidates vying to fill the vacant Board of Supervisors...

I love fair trade. It makes you feel good knowing that instead of opting for the requisite sweatshop-made garment, your shirt was stitched by a well-paid worker in a comfortable environment. I know this...

Living now, in a time with much government involvement in our daily lives, it seems our liberty is being threatened more than ever. Justin Sugg’s Oct. 12 column, “Why stop at medical marijuana?”...

Among UI Student Government leaders, there’s discernible support for students running for City Council. The problem is — as tonight’s UISG-sponsored forum exemplifies — it verges on explicit conflicts...

Orion, the constellation (as opposed to O’Ryan, the mythical Irish warrior), has been poking its nose and its belt and its legs up over the eastern horizon for the last three weeks or so, which means...

As I was perusing through the Oct. 19 issue of The Daily Iowan, I was intrigued by a half-page advertisement from the Alliance Defense Fund that read “College Students Deserve An Education Not Indoctrination.”...

On Oct. 16, former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad resigned as president of Des Moines University and announced he was officially exploring a run for governor. Would his candidacy be good for the Iowa Republican...

Michael Moore’s few and fleeting moments of wit and insightful journalism are only devices for the documentarian to manipulate and communicate inaccuracies. This is true especially in Capitalism: A Love...

At least one country already has a health-care plan roughly similar to the one President Obama and the Democrats have proposed, with universal coverage, a mandate that everyone buy insurance, and a major...

Over the next two weeks, UI officials will be forced to make some of the most arduous, disconcerting budgetary decisions in the university’s history — and next year will likely be worse. After the...