By Zach Weigel [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [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...