As Time's Person of the Century, Albert Einstein, once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Our nation is being...

Gay-basher. Adulterer. Flip-flopper. Racist. Warmonger. Molester. Corporate puppet. If you pick a GOP presidential-caucus candidate from the media's field of "mainstream" candidates, you...

The Nov. 29 editorial "Recommend Pap smears, not vaccines, to prevent cervical cancer" completely missed the mark with regard to HPV vaccines. We are researchers and clinicians at the University...

More than halfway through our term in office, the University of Iowa Student Government administration has seen both challenges and success. Last year, the Action Party ran on an ambitious, five-point...

As a strong supporter of gay marriage, I believe every state in the union should legalize it. However, governments can legalize it all they want, and the churches can still refuse to wed gay or lesbian...

Q: What's the outlook for wind-energy? A: Wind energy is a valuable source of renewable energy, and the federal tax-credit for wind-energy production should be extended beyond its scheduled expiration...

A layperson examining the 2012 GOP presidential candidates may feel burdened by the number of great candidates. For instance, there's Herman Cain, the financial mastermind of Godfather's Pizza and...

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's social-media staff isn't doing him any favors. Taking exception when they came across a disrespectful tweet by a suburban Kansas City high-school senior participating in...

Talking about the "Occupy" movement, a guy I know said, "I admire it, but it's not very well-defined; sounds more like a class warfare complaint." Let's juxtapose that comment...

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes … or should I? I honestly see most revolutions as cancerous mutations in our societal genome. Revolutions are extreme and sporadic...

I am the supervising attorney at Student Legal Services, and I wish to respond some inaccuracies in an article titled "Tailgate legal advice," which was printed in The Daily Iowan on Oct....

A bit of wisdom attributed to 16th-century philosopher Sir Francis Bacon has nearly become a cliché in today's 21st-century information age: Knowledge is power. The Internet and widespread, user-friendly...