Brian Gongol

Who knew that they were being held at gunpoint and forced to buy coffee?



They've been naming the different iterations of the operating system in alphabetical order, using dessert names (ice cream sandwich, froyo, and so on), but this one's a "branding partnership".

There's a lot of fretting about foreign investment in the United States, but it's worth noting that Americans own foreign stocks as well. And at the end of last year (the last time for which data are available), Americans held on to $5.3 trillion in stock in foreign companies, and another $2.5 trillion in their debts.

A columnist argues that it's the maintenance of the illusion that there can be safety behind pads and helmets and mouth guards that really makes things dangerous


Police representatives showed up to a hearing in Ankeny to argue that traffic-enforcement camera systems should be kept

From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar