Refreshing as it is in these days of political double-speak to see a proposal for radical change expressed so candidly, former Regent Michael Gartner's bluntness renders it easy to see how his agenda threatens...

Transparency has been a big-name issue since President Obama's campaign. We have heard the most about transparency being applied to financial transactions of the government, but there is another important...

It's been a good month for the much-maligned, often misunderstood principle of church-state separation. A whopping 67 percent of Americans agree that the First Amendment "requires a clear separation...

Democrats claim to be the party of ordinary working people (as opposed to Republicans), but it’s more accurate to say the two parties represent two partially opposed factions within the corporate ruling...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declared a California law banning the sale of violent videos unconstitutional. Although the rationale would be different, how about going further and declaring laws banning the...

On July 7, 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed the free-speech rights of public-school students in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser, ruling that public-school officials could punish a student...

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has issued its 2011 report, Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, which examines the growth and effect of regulations on the...

The real world is a messy place to collect data and draw conclusions, and The Daily Iowan’s June 27 editorial, “Drinking stats encouraging, not proof of programs’ efficacy,” did a good job of pointing...

“New York,” reports BBC News, “has become the sixth and most populous US state to allow same-sex marriage.” New York’s new law reignites the contentious issue of same-sex marriage, providing...

Thomas Paine, the catalytic firebrand who set the American Revolution ablaze, saw the uprising as America’s chance to free itself from the transatlantic tether of British dominion and as an opportunity...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected California’s violent video-game law in part because of the imprecise social-science research linking violent video games to aggressiveness in children. Now if the court...

U.S. House Resolution 304, sponsored by Reps. Robert Dold, R-Ill., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and HR 306, sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Edward Royce, R-Calif., were introduced earlier...