When smoked, Salvia divinorum can yank out the rational mind, throw it to the ground, stamp on it and finally rub one’s nose in the resulting mess. I recommend giving it a try — especially because...

Point — National popular vote is good for Iowa Be brave, Iowa senators. Approve the national popular-vote bill, and take Iowa into the next American political era. Send a message to the Electoral College...

BIt’s a warm June day in 2010, and in Huntington, W.V., a Toys ’R’ Us store is quiet save for a handful of customers slowly wandering the aisles. An employee is standing idly at the register, another...

President Obama’s trade agenda is nothing if not ambitious. His just-released policy statement, titled “Making Trade Work for American Families,” ties trade to energy efficiency and environmental...

Tales of the Cedar Rapids flood have shifted from horror stories of the disaster itself to drawn-out epics of trudging through recovery purgatory. Accompanying anecdotes of struggling with the destruction,...

In recent months, it has become almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats — a “jihad against private enterprise”...

Imagine, if you can, a world in which financial guru Warren Buffett compares the financial markets to an STD. Well, OK, that’s not exactly imagining the way John Lennon imagined imagining. I’m...

On Earth Day, the New Pioneer Co-op will become a deeper shade of green. Customers who wish to carry their purchases out of the store in paper or plastic bags will be charged 5 cents per bag. Proceeds...

As the first spring of the worst recession in 25-plus years approaches, I’ve been nursing a giddy knot in my stomach, like a drawn-out Xmas Eve. Every day above 40 degrees, there’s a little hop in...

Nobody likes science. You can tell by the fact that they teach it in school. There aren’t any high-school courses in pizza, pot smoking, or car chases. I don’t like science, either. I mean, it sounds...

As the summer months approach, many UI students are faced with a difficult decision on how to efficiently use their summer vacation. While some students are happy with returning to their high school jobs,...

As the global economy slides into ever-deeper recession, a growing chorus of doomsayers are predicting the end of life as we know it. And maybe that would be a good thing. Unsurprisingly, most elite voices...