The Obama administration, moving gingerly toward what the president has said will be a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s broken immigration system, is trying to show at the outset that it is serious...

Clinton Street is a concrete river that divides downtown Iowa City into two worlds. The Pentacrest sits atop a hill to the street’s west side — a testament to Iowa’s history and higher education. Bars...

There’s something about humming along nostalgically to Hy-Vee’s Feel-Good-But-For-God’s-Sake-Don’t-Get-Offended Music Mix for the first time that forces you to take stock in your life. There’s...

Downing terrorists keeps U.S. safe For eight years, the CIA had a secret program to kill or capture Qaeda operatives. A few weeks ago, Congress was briefed on it — and now we are debating the details...

Some columns write themselves. Earlier this week, for instance, I sat down to write a piece about Republicans in the 2010 gubernatorial election. I sat down at the keyboard, and words just poured onto...

More than 20 UI College of Law faculty members have signed a letter to Senate leaders, urging them to approve Sonia Sotomayor’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. In light of Sotomayor’s confirmation...

Today in Washington, some politicians like to suggest that the many challenges we face as a nation -mean we shouldn’t tackle health-care reform. Nothing could be further from the truth. With more and...

New tattoo regulations designed to keep us safe will more likely just make it more difficult for artists to do their jobs. The Iowa Board of Health recently raised fees and certification requirements...

Can Facebook change the world? Facebook now has 250 million users all across the world. It’s popular mostly in the United States and Western European countries but also with millions of users in South...

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America’s unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years, and it is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even...

I arrived in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport, 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) south of the capital, early Friday morning. As I stepped off the plane, I immediately noticed the smell of the polluted air....

Iowa City’s newest bicycle-safety effort looks a little bit like those arrows on the track in Mario Kart 64 — you know, the ones that, when you drive over them, give you a short burst of extra speed....