There is a difference between cultural appropriation and dressing as iconic characters such as Moana. People should be allowed to dress as these characters because the reasons they do it is admiration...
Americans need to slip away from the new cultural norm of blaming media outlets for information and start putting the responsibility on readers to correctly interpret and report the news they get from...
“House of Cards” is my favorite show. At least, it was. I’d seen it happen before — with Bill Cosby, Bill O’Reilly, and too many others — but that was never going to happen with my show. And...
In the scribble-scrabble of now, how did we get to this point, where the profundities of a clown somehow rule the day?
Well, OK, maybe he’s not a clown. Maybe he’s a maniac. Or maybe not. Maybe he’s...
Members of the Republican Party reject President Trump, resulting in a failed democracy and almost a new party.
By Constance Judd
[email protected]
President Trump was recently called out by...
Watching Hawkeye football this season is far too much like trying to read a particularly dreary British novel of the 1800s. The prose style is ponderous when it’s not monderous, the story line goes...
The scheduled panel of “The Punisher” at New York Comic Con was canceled on Oct. 7. Because the Las Vegas shooting was still so recent, the Marvel team felt that flashing around a vigilante like...
At its most basic level, political journalism needs to keep the general public informed. Our mainstream media have epically failed at doing this. A Pew Research survey reveals that the general public’s...
Lamar Wilson, one of the men who allegedly participated in the Ped Mall shooting, had criminal gang affiliation added to his list of charges on Oct. 11.
Iowa City got pretty flustered the weekend of...
In the last 40 years, obesity rates have skyrocketed around the world. A new study conducted by the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration has concluded that since 1975, the number of obese children and adolescents...
Last week, I was faced with the question “Who is Joe Walsh to say what a real Republican is?” The gears turned in my head, and I began to think of what Joe’s response would be. Joe would probably...
Last week, social media were flooded with personal accounts from those who either had experienced some form of sexual harassment or sexual assult. They posted to their profiles, #MeToo. This relaunched...
