I tend not to carry cash in my wallet. That could be a statement about my bank account or about the proliferation of plastic money. Regardless, all UI students get those plastic golden tickets — their...

This year has proven to be a field of dreams — or, rather, a field of green — for movie producers filming in Iowa. The economy-boosting idea of attracting films to the state with tax credits — in...

We’ve already written about the pros and cons of health-care reform in this paper. And I argued in a previous column that young people stand to gain significantly — if not the most — from health-care...

“The worldly philosophers” was economist Robert Heilbroner’s term for such great economic thinkers as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Joseph Schumpeter. Today’s free-market economists,...

In the weeks following the July 24 death of John Deng, many have raised issues regarding the legitimacy of the shooting and whether it was warranted. The Iowa Attorney General’s Office released its final...

My friends were littering the new house with empty beer cans. They were creating a decorative pyramid of the past night’s frivolity and debauchery. As a newly unleashed sophomore in the world of renter...

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...

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...

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...

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...