By Jack Dugan [email protected] The Dakota Access Pipeline, after months of media neglect, has emerged amid headlines once again. Images of road blocks, tire fires, and beaten protesters have been...

By Joe Lane [email protected] The U.S. military is the most powerful in the world. Period. Despite this virtually undeniable fact, an increasing number of U.S. citizens believe that the United States...

By Marcus Brown [email protected] Voter fraud has been propped up by the GOP for years now as a political boogeyman of sorts and has been used as the justification for stringent and discriminatory...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] So I was going to vote for/endorse Donald Trump. It was going to be a wonderful joke. Well, except that humor is lost in this world; humor doesn’t have GPS, it turns...

By Vivian Medithi [email protected] I was 12 when my parents became full-fledged U.S. citizens. I remember their spending weeks quizzing each other on American history facts most citizens by birth...

By Hanna Grissel [email protected] Since construction began on the Dakota Access Pipeline, it has been met with an unprecedented number of protests held by those who call themselves protectors....

The 2016 presidential election has been unlike any other in recent memory. According to the statistics-based news site fivethirtyeight.com, both major-party candidates have historically high unfavorable...

It would be hard to ignore the new bike-rack infrastructure that has recently popped up at Dubuque and Washington, and I believe that is precisely the effect the OPN architects were going for when constructing...

By Zach Weigel [email protected] For those of you who ventured over to Kinnick Stadium on Oct. 22 to watch your Hawkeyes take on the Badgers, you may be aware that the game served as the annual...

By Emily Van Kirk [email protected] Marie La Pen in France and Viktor Orban in Hungary are successful far-right party members in Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent electoral decline...

By Joe Lane [email protected] We are now fewer than two weeks away from one of the most anticipated presidential elections in U.S. history. Whether that anticipation stems from a complete disgust...

By Beau Elliot [email protected] “Nasty woman,” huh?   Good work, there, Trumpster. Your two words in the final “debate” managed to produce a tsunami of “Nasty woman” logos on T-shirts,...