Days after the Iowa City City Council voted to fire City Manager Michael Lombardo, locals are still standing with hands in the air wondering, “What the hell just happened?” Lombardo’s termination...

I happened to run into Sean Hannity the other day, and after helping him up and dusting him off — and apologizing for unexpectedly veering to the right — we went off to have a beer and a nice time...

It’s an ingenious plan, even elegant in a wonky way. To help fund health care for the estimated 47 million uninsured Americans, budget chief Peter Orszag has proposed changing how the nation’s wealthiest...

Voting started early this morning for this year’s UI Student Government election — hopefully. But that’s the same thing they told us last week, when voting was originally slated to begin. But then...

All right, it’s April; where are my tornadoes? As a Midwesterner, I feel like it’s my right to cower in some basement and with a guilty excitement wonder what it must be like in that trailer park...

It is a bad world in which to be an almost-50-year-old virgin, unemployed, with frizzy hair, midriff bulge, and a figure like a spinster teacher from the 1940s. In the international world of televised...

There’s no use trying to hide from it — students are likely the root of downtown violence. But it stands to reason that those same students would be effective in figuring out solutions to Iowa City’s...

Since the start of this year, I have heard professors and colleagues of mine harp about the declining newspaper industry. They ask such questions as “where will all the graduates of Iowa’s journalism...

Just in time for spring wedding season, gay-marriage activists are celebrating a triumphant few weeks. On April 7, the Vermont Legislature effectively legalized same-sex unions in that state. Days earlier,...

With the nation engaged in two wars and facing a number of potential adversaries, this is no time to weaken our military. Yet if gay-rights activists and their allies have their way, grave harm will soon...

Social networking, to many, is a means of satisfying their addiction to interaction with others. But, increasingly, people around the world are using social-networking outlets — creations such as Facebook,...

I have a Ronald Reagan-inspired cowboy tattoo. It’s on my left thigh — high enough that it’s invisible even when I’m wearing shorts, but low enough that I can show it off if I get the opportunity. I...