By Katrina Custardo
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Abortion rights across the country have come under fire recently.
With a Republican Congress and a soon to be “Republican” president and
Republican...
By Mars Thera Pope
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There are many battles to be fought for the LGBTQ community, and Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines, is trying to do so with the bills he introduced Jan 11. The first...
By Beau Elliot
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Well, we made it through another War on Christmas, and most of us, including Christmas, came through unscathed. I think.
Well, maybe not the Hawkeye men’s basketball...
By Marcus Brown
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The medium in which one chooses to publish written work has an obvious effect on the availability and profitability of the work being published, but this is not...
By Jack Dugan
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The existence of a “professor watch list” has been making rounds recently, generating concerns of censorship on both sides of the political spectrum. The list...
By Hannah Grissel
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According to the Iowa City Press-Citizen, Mackenzie Lee was arrested Wednesday night after a traffic stop on Market Street. Apparently officers smelled marijuana,...
By Zach Weigel
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It’s been 16 months since Jon Stewart left his desk at “The Daily Show,” but just because he’s no longer the host of the Emmy-winning satirical news show...
By Joseph Lane
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Late in his campaign, Donald Trump promised that one of his plans for the presidency was to “Drain the Swamp.” This catchy phrase, of course, refers to the elimination...
By Vivian Medithi
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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
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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
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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
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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...
