By Dot Armstrong [email protected] As any Midwesterner knows, battling winter weather on the highway can be deadly. The winding back roads cutting across the exhausted heart of farm country...

By Hannah Soyer [email protected] Since June 2014, Johnson County has been a sanctuary county, meaning that undocumented immigrants cannot be prosecuted solely for being undocumented. This is an...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] Remember when (OK, it was in back in the Middle Ages, so who can remember), then in Scotland at his golf course and resort (what else), Donald Trump got all giddy...

By Marcus Brown [email protected] With the recent passing of Cuban revolutionary and President Fidel Castro, it would not be difficult to find any one of a thousand think pieces and hot takes regarding...

On Nov. 25, the Army Corps of Engineers sent a letter to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe evicting protest camps from the land around the Dakota Access Pipeline by Dec. 5, citing violent clashes between law...

By Rebecca Fernandez [email protected] On Nov. 25, the Wisconsin Election Commission announced a statewide recount after receiving a petition from Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Stein’s...

By Vivian Medithi [email protected] Did you know that 3 million undocumented immigrants voted in the election, and if we tossed out all of their votes, Hillary Clinton would have lost not only...

By HANNA GRISSEL [email protected] Local restaurant and Iowa City favorite Stella made headlines after playing a joke on its game-day customers on Nov. 12. A joke, that seems apt to some and egregious...

By Marcus Brown [email protected] The television show “Black Mirror” is a British anthology reminiscent of Rod Sterling’s surreal and often terrifying television show “The Twilight Zone,”...

Emily Van Kirk [email protected] Against all perceived odds, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States on Nov. 8. His victory was a shock to Americans and the international community...

By Joe Lane [email protected] In social media, Donald Trump has been as ubiquitous as ever — if not more so. What is truly astonishing to me, however, is not the overly extensive coverage of Trump...

Being Muslim in Trump’s America is frightening, but open discussions are necessary to end Islamophobia.  By Anis Shakirah Mohd Muslimin [email protected] Confusion, fear and disappointment...