Over the past several weeks, the education committee of the Iowa House of Representatives has passed out a record number of bills to be considered by the full house for debate, 33 bills to be exact. WOW! That is a lot of education bills! Last year we voted out 28 total bills during the full ...

This week, Vladimir Putin finally — allegedly — murdered his chief political rival and critic Alexei Navalny. Navalny’s death followed an attempt by Putin’s operatives in 2020 to kill him by poisoning; Navalny survived the attempt, worked with online specialists to unmask the actual ...

With an old Betty Crocker cookbook opened to the list of frosting recipes, I called out to my husband, “Do you know that Fluffy White Frosting is one of the few frosting recipes where boiling-hot water is required? Without it and lots of beating, you can’t achieve that fluffy ...

“How we gonna pay last year’s rent?” the chorus implores in the song “Rent” from Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical of the same name. It’s the same refrain for many Americans today. A new Harvard study found that half of U.S. renter households now spend more than 30 percent of their ...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the country have faced unprecedented challenges. One significant consequence has been a notable decline in student behavior. The disruption caused by the pandemic, including shifts to remote learning, social isolation, and uncertainties about ...

Basic economic theory tells us that when too many dollars chase too few goods, the result is inflation. Americans don’t need to take a course in economics to understand this concept because President Biden personally delivered a real-world example. By wasting trillions of dollars — ...