Women, it seems, are bummed-out these days. A study released last month from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the University of Pennsylvania showed that even though men’s and women’s happiness...

Attempts to market Iowa City as a friendly place for same-sex marriage have again raised the question of what defines marriage. Individuals opposed to same-sex marriage argue that marriage is a sacred...

“I want to just delete all the information off my Facebook profile,” a friend recently told me. “Then I’ll just use my account to look at what everyone else is doing.” There’s a name for “looking...

In 1986 and 1987, I was one of the “masterminds” behind the importation and sale of approximately 75 tons of pot from Southeast Asia to the United States. It was the culmination of a 20-year career...

With the saturation of Iowa City’s rental market and growing population of college students, certain rental agencies, such as mine, and real-estate owners have targeted renters in Iowa City, college...

In ruling that a justice on West Virginia’s highest court should have recused himself from a case involving a campaign benefactor, the U.S. Supreme Court has righted an egregious wrong. More important,...

Variety is important. We should all hold diversity as a personal value and recognize the positive consequences it brings. However, when government gets into the business of mandating diversity, we’re...

The first week or so of June is full of anniversaries, it seems. What? You haven’t noticed? You really need to stop Twittering so much. Or Tweeting. Whatever. Baseball is a much safer addiction. For...

The one year anniversary of last summer’s flood is upon us. These 12 months have tested the resolve and the will of our campus and community like nothing we could have expected. Twenty of our buildings...

It being summer, I’ve once again traded mind-numbingly pointless homework for soul-crushingly repetitive work. This forces me to spend less time guiltily tabbing through Wikipedia entries that are at...

In the wake of final exams, papers, portfolios and the reading, studying, and memorizing sessions crammed in between them, many students at the UI are collapsing with exhaustion. But, quite commonly, the...

“I’ll take a coffee and a paper.” And so it goes — the age-old of tradition of breakfast and news. For some, those were the first words spoken in the morning. But then, the Internet came along,...