By Katrina Custardo  [email protected] Calls to decriminalize cannabis have increased across the country, and this time, Iowa is part of the new movement. It started in the Iowa Senate with...

By Travis Coltrain [email protected] Since former President Nixon declared a “war on drugs” in 1971, the battle has been going strong. However, the focus has shifted since the 1970s....

By Dot Armstrong  [email protected] I have a confession to make: I did not vote in the University of Iowa Student Government elections. I was in a fog of senioritis and forgot to perform...

By Joe Lane [email protected] According to the history books, the Cold War ended in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union. Despite the implementation of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] Amid tense times in regard to international politics (Syria missile strike, the “MOAB” dropped on ISIS, Turkey’s constitutional overhaul, and anxieties...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] So it’s been a marvelous few weeks recently, if you’re into April imitating March, which imitated February, which imitated April, which culminated in clams...

By Logan Pillard [email protected] Russian spies, inner-circle feuds, weekly bomb threats — the Trump White House has about as much drama as any prime-time Shonda Rhimes’ television show,...

By Stephen Schrichfield [email protected] There are always two sides of a story. In the wake of United’s brutal removal of passenger David Dao, one side was presented, Dao’s, while...

By Travis Coltrain [email protected] Prostitution and sex work have a pretty stale stigma attached to the jobs, something I’ve never quite understood. Many of those against sex work will...

By Mars Thera Pope  [email protected] United Airlines, a company that has provided transportation by air for more than 80 years, has put itself in the midst of a public-relations nightmare. With...

By Dan Williams [email protected] Immigration is one of the most important debates we should have. The issue gets at fundamental fears and hopes about what America is, could be, and is becoming....