More guns, they said, will surely lead to brutally bloody blunders. Yet, more than a year and a half since the UI police — for the first time in more than 40 years — strapped guns into their holsters,...

Every night in Tehran, Iran, you can hear people chanting from rooftops in unison “God is great” and “death to the dictator.” By day, people march, and face severe persecution and even death. What...

Hawkeye football players breaking the law — and getting caught — shines an extremely negative light on the UI. However, when it comes to our football team’s legal woes, finding the source of the...

OK, so I love reading Playboy. And I mean reading, now, especially the fiction. Don’t get me wrong, the middle sections are nice too, sometimes a lot nicer, but it’s a damn classy publication. I guess...

It’s a daunting time to be entering the work force. Today’s young adults — like their great-grandparents eight decades earlier — are graduating from high school and college and starting careers...

Twenty years ago, I played a pretty mean shortstop. (I still play a pretty mean shortstop — it’s just a lot more brutal to watch.) Of course, 20 years ago I did a lot more than play shortstop, because,...

Millions have cried out against the re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, labeling Iran’s democratic process fraudulent. It’s an injustice, of course, but I see this as the spark Iranians...

In 1989 — a year especially important for being the beginning of the end of the Cold War — the Chinese military violently attacked pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Though the situations...

If you listened to President Obama addressing the American Medical Association last week, you might think that the primary purpose of health-care reform is, as he said, “to control the spiraling cost...

Security and law enforcement are essential to maintaining a stable society. The key to maintaining that security is entrusting a corps of individuals to protect and serve and also adequately motivating...

There was a time when walking between Van Allen and Seashore Halls at night was exciting. As sad as it may sound, the way the indifferent yellow-orange light hung on the walls and pavement — more like...

Democrats’ worst nightmare would be if the Republican Party nominated someone who came closest to the mixture of ideologies represented by Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, which commanded the White...