Most of my adult life has been intertwined with the Kennedy family. As a freshman at American University in 1960, I stayed up late watching the election returns, as John F. Kennedy barely eked out a victory...

Listen to the naysayers, and the newspaper business is doomed. Declining advertising revenue, floundering circulation, and a recalcitrant unwillingness among readers to — gasp — pay for news. So what’s...

Is the Iowa Republican Party making a comeback? After taking a beating from Democrats in 2006 and 2008, GOP officials sound a lot more optimistic than they did in January. After the November presidential...

With thousands of inebriated students and alcohol-related violence prevalent, Iowa City police are right to patrol the Pedestrian Mall and surrounding areas. But the relatively incipient, yet pernicious...

Reader’s Digest’s recent filing of Chapter 11 bankruptcy is a tough to swallow for all Listerine addicts around the country. For the last 80 years, dentist offices have been littered with countless...

While President Obama continues without much reward his attempts to play nice with his Republican opposition, his Justice Department is refusing to let bygones be bygones. His attorney general, Eric Holder,...

Students aren’t the only group returning to downtown in large numbers this fall. Police officers will also be there to ticket people for underage drinking, arrest them for public intoxication, and, hopefully,...

Some August, huh? Who knew that death panels were staked out in every corner of the land, drooling that hideous socialist spittle and itching to kill grandma and Sarah Palin’s child? (Who knew this...

In New Hampshire and Arizona, men openly packing guns came to an event where the president was speaking. In Arizona, one man brandished an assault rifle, a rifle designed for only one thing: killing human...

As UI officials continue in their attempts to combat underage drinking, one recent move might add a fun and easy way to do just that. This fall, the university has paired with the Coralville Transit System...

Irrational rage and political fearmongering have drowned out the voices of truth and reason in America’s health-care debate. What was once a civilized discussion now resembles downtown Iowa City after...

In order to diagnose what ails President Obama’s push for health-care reform, we need less heated rhetoric and more Cool Hand Luke. In a memorable line from the 1967 film, a prison warden surmises:...