President Obama’s decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantánamo detainees is a failure of leadership in the project of putting...

I listen to America — in focus groups, telephone interviews, town halls, and polls in all 50 states — for a living. It used to be fun. Now it’s become painful. For 15 years, average Americans have...

One state regent thinks so. Two Opinions writers give their thoughts on the proposal. No: UI should wait until it is back in the black Building a new residence hall would have been a great idea in 2005...

The Detroit Lions — yes, the toothless Lions — finally won a football game, a feat once considered about as impossible as achieving peace in Somalia. So I suppose it’s possible that we might get...

The novel H1N1 virus started flu season with infections reported throughout the country. Iowa City is not immune to this threat; UI officials recently said the virus had potentially infected as many as...

My mother told me to expect at least five career changes in my lifetime. She wasn’t criticizing me for being indecisive; she merely stated a classic adage for the American worker. In today’s economic...

Tehran could soon have humankind’s most frightening weapon if substantial diplomatic progress is not made in the coming days. For years, Iran spurned diplomatic overtures to address the threat posed...

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” economist Milton Friedman, among others, famously proclaimed. But for Iowa City residents who use the Field House, it may seem that way. For the better part...

I’m walking to my 3:30 philosophy class, approaching the least aesthetically pleasing building on campus. A bland structure, spotted with red and brown bricks piled up five floors, divided by tall columns...

Tucker Max thinks that “all women are whores” and that “fat girls aren’t real people” — and those are some of his family-friendlier observations. So why do so many women love him? Max and...

Founding Father and eventual President James Madison warned against the “tyranny of the majority” in the country’s early days. The tyranny he referred to was the power an elected majority — or...

We are having the wrong public debate about global warming — and we are running out of time to get it right. It’s important to discuss carbon caps and taxes or other mitigation strategies, but a...