If the late author George Orwell was correct that political language is “designed to make lies sound truthful” and “give an appearance of solidity to pure wind,” then surely social media was made to fan those lies far and wide. That’s much easier to do when bots artificially amplify ...

Remember the days before robocalls? When your landline and cell phone were free from scam artists selling something, threatening you with arrest, wheedling to extract a credit-card number? Nah, we can’t either. The number of unwanted calls in the U.S. is measured in the tens of billions ...

Most students are back to school around Iowa, and thousands of families are settling into a new seasonal cycle. New pencils. New teachers. New buses. New friends. New bedtimes. For anyone other than kindergarten parents, though, there’s a comforting familiarity about this time of year. ...

Perhaps you’ve been reading that the Trump Administration wants to make it easier to eliminate polar bears, spotted owls and other species from the face of the earth. As ever in Donald Trump ‘s Washington, the reality is different, so allow us to explain. The uproar concerns a proposed ...

Check the Sunday opinion section each week to see how some residents answered the question of the week. Sound Off is compiled and written by Ashlyn Ruiz, a junior at MHS.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said it well, “we choose science over fiction.” The presidential candidate was wrapping up his remarks on July 31, during the second night of Democratic debates in Detroit. His words-in that single sentence, at least—are exactly right. Too often, ...