When I finally saw The Beguiled, my excitement waned after the first 15 minutes of dewy mansions and frayed petticoats. A dark fairy tale about white Southern women, with no people of color in sight? Something...

“I am worried about Trump, what he will do to the world?” Pierre said to me. Pierre is a French pediatrician whom I’d chat for class at a local bar in Pau, France. It was the fall of 2016, just after...

So, what’s up with Donald Jr.? And how did he wind up in the middle of the Russian election-meddling scandal? Which, somehow, hardly anyone has labeled a “gate.” Yet. In 2013, the Trumpster put...

Gerrymandering. The practice of deliberately manipulating the boundaries of electoral districts in such a way to privilege a specific bloc. Or to put it bluntly, rigging elections. Despite the peculiar...

When President Trump visited Cedar Rapids a few weeks ago, one attendee was quoted in The Daily Iowan as saying, in response to protesters present, “I guess it’s their right to protest. But they ought...

By Hannah Soyer [email protected] Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., finished his speech for the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement 2017 conference on July 15 by answering this question: What are...

Food waste adds 18,000 tons each year to the Iowa City landfill; composting and food mindfulness is the solution. By Dot Armstrong [email protected] Composting is often invoked as the grossest...

As the GOP makes more and more decisions to reward only the most wealthy, Iowan farmers get hurt. By Jacob Prall [email protected] Traveling between my home in Cedar Rapids and my residence in...

Agata Kornhauser-Duda’s walking past Donald Trump to greet Melania Trump demonstrated that wives of top officials are no longer arm decorations. By Hannah Webster [email protected] When it...

Recently, our view of the North Korean people has been similar to that of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, an image shaded by propaganda and fear. Whether we are hearing about the country’s attempts...

There’s an interesting debate going on in leftist circles concerning the future of the Democratic Party. On the one side, there is the call for a return to the party’s roots, going back to Franklin...

By Stephen Schrichfield [email protected] It’s been classified as a drug that doesn’t discriminate. Opioids don’t stop to check race, income, and where you reside. Its epicenter being...