The war in the Mideast may or may not continue for long, but the after-effects of the destruction of oil production ...

Stagflation doesn’t have to strangle your stock portfolio. Keep this in mind as you confront the current scary narrative that, because of the Iran conflict and the accompanying spike in oil prices, ...

From Honda’s top-selling N-Box to the Suzuki Every microvan, Japan’s perfectly formed mini cars will take you the distance. The wider world is finally waking up to the joys of the kei car; even Donald ...

Ukrainian soldiers take part in a trench field training exercise, March 2025. (Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images) KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s military leadership plans to phase out sending troops ...

Zachary Evens: Small-cap stocks have spent the last few years in the market’s shadow, but 2026 could shape up to be a different story. With interest rates falling, economic growth broadening, and ...

Small-cap funds are benefiting because technology stocks represent far less exposure in their portfolios than in mega-cap benchmarks, combined with historically cheap valuations relative to the S&P ...

Luke Combs and his family are building their dream home, but it’s taking a while. They’ve been in the process (and living in a two-bedroom home in the meantime) since at least 2023. During that time, ...

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.” So wrote George Orwell in his 1946 essay, Why I Write. Two years later, Orwell completed 1984 – ...

AN EMPLOYEE AT A POPULAR RESTAURANT IN DES MOINES IS FINDING PURPOSE AND BELONGING. SHE SURE IS. TOMORROW IS WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY. KCCI JODI LONG SHOWS US HOW A SIMPLE JOB TURNED INTO A MEANINGFUL ...

When the Iowa City Yiddish Group began meeting at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was one of the absolute beginners. Six years later, I lead the enthusiastic group of some 12-15 retirees and ...

I feel incredibly fortunate to have understood an essential truth about how to treat people when I was just 6 years old. It was a week or so after Halloween. My parents had held back most of my good ...