The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Sexual-abuse trial begins

OLIVIA MORAN February 18, 2009

Micah Matthews, a 33-year-old man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in 2007, sat still at his trial on Tuesday as witnesses described the victim as now “traumatized” and “broken.” “I...

The ‘speaking truth to power’ gap

JONAH GOLDBERG February 18, 2009

“Speak truth to power,” a phrase of Quaker origins adopted by campus radicals, Hollywood gadflies, and establishment journalists, has become something of an abracadabra slogan to justify criticizing...

In memory of TV

NICHOLAS KELLY February 18, 2009

TV, we must talk. TV, I thought we were OK. Remember the good times, TV? When I wrote the columns about how you were swell? How I spoke in your defense, told people you weren’t completely evil, the...

Lost for words in flood aid

DI EDITORIAL BOARD February 18, 2009

On March 3, citizens of Linn County will throw open their curtains, greet the swelling airs of spring, and trudge out into the blizzard-melt to cast their votes on the proposed local-option sales-tax increase. Designed...

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