Emileigh: I’ve heard, through anonymous groans on our comment board lately, that some readers think my column doesn’t talk about serious enough topics. Of course, this is tricky, since, as the editor,...

By the end of the week, we’ll probably know whom President Obama plans to nominate as retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s successor. With all respect to the crack economic team the...

People are scared. That seems to be the nominal American mindset these days. What are we all so nervous about? Oh, my. It wouldn’t be so difficult to compile a list of terrors, it would just be redundant....

When I’m not here, making a strange face in the upper right corner of this page, it’s entirely possible you could find me at my other place of employment, the venerable L&M Mighty Shop. While...

“I don’t want to run auto companies,” President Obama said last week. “I’m not an auto engineer. I don’t know how to create an affordable, well-designed plug-in hybrid.” To those of us who...

People with runny noses, congestion, or a bad cough can be a common sight in spring. Along with sunnier days, the occasional rainy day, and warmer temperatures, spring allergies are a rite of passage —...

Yikes. (We’re all going to die of swine flu.) (Or not. Who can tell these days? Those are just the kind of days we have, these days.) (But with all the swine-flu hysteria in the last week or so —...

David Kilcullen is no soft-headed peacenik. He’s a beefy, 41-year-old former Australian army officer who served in Iraq as a top adviser to U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus. He’s one of the counterinsurgency...

Just months after the end of the longest presidential election season ever, voters will head back to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots regarding a local-option sales tax. The tax, if passed, would make...

An interesting case of news that isn’t news: Today’s the day that gay and lesbian marriages make their way into documented history for the state of Iowa. What makes this news isn’t the bright glare...

Second only to Hawkeye football, music festivals are the biggest passion in my life. Your pounding hangover and unbearable heat inside the tent force you to wake up. As you step outside, the smell of...

“I certainly wouldn’t hire him again.” Is that Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey talking about recently fired City Manager Michael Lombardo? No, it’s Allegan County, Mich., County Commissioner Steve...