by Mars thera pope [email protected] Several news organizations were barred from the Trump White House press briefing on Feb. 24. Such news outlets as CNN, Buzzfeed, and the New York Times were not...

By Jack dugan [email protected] Earlier last week, a letter was sent to Thomas Bradshaw, one of the nearly 3,000  students affected by the recent University of Iowa scholarship cuts. Bradshaw...

by DOT ARMSTRONG [email protected] In January, there was a small victory in the ongoing fight for gender equality: in an unprecedented gesture of inclusiveness, the Boy Scouts of America welcomed...

By Dan Williams [email protected] Because we do not live in a pure democracy, it is not required — in fact it is often illegal, as Michael Flynn found out — for ordinary citizens to participate...

By Laura Townsend [email protected] Television has the power to make real change happen fast. It has the power to humanize largely stigmatized groups of people through empathy, comedy, and captivating...

By Travis Coltrain [email protected] President Trump’s revised travel ban has been made public, and it targets the same seven Muslim-majority countries. Out of these seven countries, zero have...

By Joe Lane [email protected] It’s been almost four years since I started working for The Daily Iowan. In those four years, I have written countless columns about anti-Semitism and what it means...

By Logan Pillard [email protected] As Congress takes a recess from Washington, senators and representatives are returning to their states, holding town halls to speak to their constituents —...

By Wylliam Smith [email protected] It’s no secret that Iowa isn’t necessarily a diverse state. The state population as a whole is 91.3 percent white. But now is the month of February, Black...

Hanna Grissel [email protected] In the past few days, much of the internet has watched the downfall of the alt-right’s inflammatory, white supremacist frontman Milo Yiannopoulos after he...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] HF 291, better known as the collective-bargaining bill, was signed into law Feb. 17 by Gov. Terry Branstad after being fast-tracked through the Republican...

By Isabella Rosario [email protected] On  Feb. 17, President Trump tweeted, “The FAKE NEWS media (failing  @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the...