Baseball rivalries, family vacations, midday tanning. Late July is surely upon us. But in Iowa City, furniture lining the avenues is the biggest giveaway that school is less than a month away. This week...

If you go to a NFL or MLB game, you’re almost sure to find yourself in a stadium named after a huge corporation. Citi Field in New York City hosts the Mets. The world champion LA Lakers hold their games...

Shortly after 8 p.m. on May 4, American B-1 bombers began pounding the Afghan village of Granai in an effort to protect a group of Afghan soldiers who had come under fire. When the air strikes ended seven...

This weekend’s shooting happened on the night of July 24, but by the morning of July 25, buzz was already swirling around the area. It’s easy to be get caught up in discussion over the violent fiasco;...

Iowa City is a serene Eden of learning, originality, and small-town charm, and I have never been so relieved to leave a place. The strange thing is that this seems to be a fairly common contradiction. At...

This is what is likely to come of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home by a white police officer: nothing. The July 16 arrest of the African American scholar by a Cambridge, Mass., police officer...

Wide-spread layoffs, pay cuts, and defunct publications. Recently graduated journalism friends have told me they literally have nightmares about those things. But step back an age group to the high-school...

Middle class will end up paying Health care in this country will not a right, even after the federal government figures out which of the two bills floating around Congress will become a law. Both bills,...

It’s amazing what an hour of aimless channel surfing can turn up these days. After some freewheeling with the remote one night recently, I managed to catch not only half a dozen low-budget makeover...

A nice drive on an open highway is an iconic image of summer. But just down the road, a cop lurking behind a billboard or just over the hill waiting to pull over the speedster seems to put a damper on...

Imagine the likelihood of you or someone you know surviving childbirth as one in seven. By the time you finish reading this column, four women will have died from complications related to pregnancy or...