In accordance with our government’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy, an openly gay soldier is deemed “an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit...

Iowa courthouses are struggling, to say the least. As part of statewide budget slashes, courthouses in all 99 Iowa counties will close down for 10 days over the next seven months. Employees across Iowa...

Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google, summed up the effort to pass a U.S. climate-change bill as an “epic, epic struggle.” This summer, the U.S. House of Representatives...

UI President Sally Mason charged us last year to mobilize a campuswide effort — in collaboration with community members — to change the culture of high-risk drinking. At stake is the future of our...

TA cuts, potential tuition hikes, and … a new public-relations hiring? This week, the UI leadership is interviewing four candidates for the vice president of Strategic Communication position, who would...

A very handy tool on everyone’s favorite search engine, Google, will fill in subsequent words in your inquiry you may be intending to search for. For instance, if you begin to type “Brad,” it will...

While I was in the Army, I had the opportunity of being stationed in Germany for more than two years, and while I was there, I went traveling a bit. Weekend getaways to London, snowboarding in Garmisch,...

Another term, another slew of pressing issues. Iowa City voters elected two new faces and one familiar face to the City Council one week ago. And while the turnout may have been in record low numbers,...

So I hear that President Obama is dead. Not physically dead, of course. Politically dead. Politically dead is an odd little country that the chattering class from time to time consigns politicians to...

The government must reform our tort system so that billions of dollars are not wasted. Currently, doctors defensively conduct unneeded tests to cover themselves against lawsuits, causing them to obtain...

Requirement change ultimately hurts students I was shocked to hear the UI is cutting its rhetoric requirement down to one semester. When I was a freshman, rhetoric was the UI’s crown jewel. Neither...

Wendell Potter looked like a stereotypical insurance man. He wore dark-rimmed glasses, a simple black suit/tie combination, and spoke in a slight Tennessee drawl. There was nothing flashy about his appearance...