By Vivian Medithi [email protected] Gucci Mane is mad he wasn’t nominated for a Grammy. On Dec. 7, the Atlanta rapper tweeted, “I’m sick of it,” punctuating the word sick with an emoji...

By Hannah Soyer [email protected] This past May, I worked on an investigative story that was published through IowaWatch and then the Des Moines Register and Cedar Rapids Gazette, among many other...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] Yikes. Russians. Coming. Here? Say it ain’t so, Joe. Well, that could be Shoeless Joe Jackson, possibly falsely implicated in the Black Sox Scandal of the 1919...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] Last week, I wrote a column about how political polarization isn’t real. I made the case that Americans just think they are polarized because of a rise of identity...

by Grant Davis [email protected] As kids, we drink Capri-Suns as a nice afternoon snack. In college, we use them as chasers as pregame before going out on Friday nights. But it feels like underage...

By Dorothy Armstrong [email protected] I love The Nutcracker. As a dancer, as an audience member, as a pop-culture consumer — I willingly admit to a fervent devotion bordering on mild obsession....

By Rebecca Fernandez [email protected] For many of the people on my Facebook timeline, the Army Corps of Engineers’ announcement to withhold the final easement needed to complete the construction...

By Hannah Grissel  [email protected] Only two percent of United States landmass belongs to Native American Reservations, but according to a 2009 estimate by the Council of Energy Resource tribes,...

By Marcus Brown [email protected] Today would have been the day controversial Breitbart Technology Editor Milo Yiannopoulos would have held a public speaking engagement at the Iowa State University...

by Joseph Lane [email protected] Depression is a complicated illness for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is an unfortunate cultural stigma. A report published last week in the British...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] Despite what media outlets and political rhetoric suggests, the nation is not polarized along ideological lines. By this I mean to say that our nation is not as...

By Jack Dugan [email protected] Have we forgotten about Flint, Michigan? I would assume that the nearly 100,000 residents who are still afflicted with water insecurity have not. The water crisis...