Opinion

A Hollywood actress, working on location for a major motion picture in a small Iowa town, is bludgeoned to death with a golf club for no apparent reason.

The trail of clues left by the …

Neil Harl, who died Nov. 4 at age 88, was quite possibly the smartest person I ever interviewed and definitely the fastest talker.

Harl knew all there was to know about agriculture and finance. 

He …

“They finally did it,” my old friend K.C. said when I caught up with him on the Grand Avenue bridge over Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

“Did what?” I asked. “Passed a reapportionment plan? 

“They …

“We are certainly in uncharted waters,” economist James Paulsen wrote in a recent newsletter that explores topics ranging from inflation to economic policy, employment to productivity, and millennials to downtowns.

Aging baby boomers are being …

A new study in the journal Food Policy says U.S. soybean producers received a $5 billion windfall in 2018-19 when the U.S. Department of Agriculture overestimated damage caused by Chinese trade-war tariffs.

“Overall, farmers received …

The new Texas abortion law has much in common with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, a statute that has been described as “one of the most hated and openly violated federal laws” in U.S. …

My recent high school reunion felt different, and it wasn’t because we are now as likely to meet old friends in a cemetery as at a bar. According to our class obituary keeper, half as …