By Helaina Thompson [email protected] In May, on the fringes of the Southern heat’s advent, I flew to Texas for two days to photograph an event in downtown Austin. The day before the event,...

Marcus Brown marcus-brown The government has a responsibility to its constituency to not only act in the best interest of that constituency but to also be transparent while doing so. The issue of transparency...

Vivian Medithi  [email protected] Is the Ku Klux Klan deplorable? I wish that in 2016, this wasn’t a topic for debate. Yet, when asked on Sept. 12 whether Louisiana Senate candidate David Duke,...

Emily Van Kirk  emily-van kirk @uiowa.edu Britain has become the world’s second largest exporter of weapons, selling arms to a host of countries. Many of Britain’s buyers have problematic human-rights-abuse...

Joe Lane  [email protected] Across the country, as an election rapidly approaches, there is a fight going on to return the right to vote to tens of thousands of U.S. citizens. According to an NPR...

Beau Elliot [email protected] There is this strange thing in the world, which is so full of strange things that it seems strange to call something strange. Confused yet? Me, too. There seems to be...

Marcus Brown [email protected] The issue of standing or not standing during the national anthem has become a controversial issue for  numerous professional sport organizations, and it appears to...

A.J.K O'Donnell [email protected] The tension surrounding the two men was almost palpable. It seemed that one could almost reach out and crack the thick air between the couple as they spoke. The...

Sam Studer [email protected] The National Center of Education Statistics states there are more than 49.5 million public-school students and 3.1 million teachers. Those teachers have a big responsibility...

By Hanna Grissel [email protected] The country of Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Middle Eastern region. Yemen’s population stands around 25 million, according to statistics provided...

A.J.K O'Donnell [email protected] When members of the University of Iowa’s class of 2020 were juniors in high school, Mexico suffered an estimated 164,000 homicides because of drug cartels and violence...

By Helaina Thompson [email protected] For three years, my significant other has worked as a baker, and for the two of those years we’ve known one another, I’ve happily devoured hand made...