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...

We believe that the plan to “merge” the Mathematics Library constitutes the abolishment and dismantling of the Mathematics Library. We believe that the vast majority of UI faculty are opposed to the...

Lack of student voters hurts us all People cast 17 votes at the UI Main Library for Tuesday’s City Council election. If Panchero’s had another free burrito day, more UI students would show up. Steak...

I would like share a road-trip story three Hoosier fans took this Halloween weekend to Iowa City. Traveling across 360 miles of beautiful, corn-lined Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa interstates felt like...

The idea of asking hospital patients to make donations upon their arrival — as UI Hospitals and Clinics officials apparently considered doing — is like a surgeon placing a tip jar in the operating...

Ballot boxes all over the country felt pretty lonely on Tuesday. Sure, they had election workers tending to them and making sure ballots were fully stocked. And, of course, older voters predictably made...

There is no disputing the fact that health-care costs in the United States are excessive and continue to grow at an unsustainable rate. Based upon data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,...