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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Weigel: Talking tuition and the Legislature

Weigel: Talking tuition and the Legislature

November 30, 2016

By Zach Weigel [email protected] While many of us enjoyed our all-too-short fall break by gathering around the dinner table with family and friends, we may have forgotten that another potential...

Lane: Any other name smells as sour

Lane: Any other name smells as sour

November 30, 2016

By Joseph Lane [email protected] As Donald Trump has started to fill out his Cabinet, many of the fears held by Democrats (and anti-Trump voters in general) have been confirmed. His likely Cabinet...

Armstrong: Better snow fences for safer roads

Armstrong: Better snow fences for safer roads

November 29, 2016

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...

The Old Capitol is shown on Monday, July 25, 2016.

Soyer: Keep Johnson County sanctuary county

November 29, 2016

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...

Elliot: Fraud, fraud, & more fraud

Elliot: Fraud, fraud, & more fraud

November 29, 2016

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...

Brown: Swimming in the media tsunami

Brown: Swimming in the media tsunami

November 29, 2016

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...

Medithi: Stifling free speech

Medithi: Stifling free speech

Vivian Medithi, [email protected] November 28, 2016

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...

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in New York, where she conceded her defeat to Republican Donald Trump after the hard-fought presidential election. A group of election lawyers and data experts have asked Clinton’s campaign to call for a recount of the vote totals in three battleground states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania,  in order to ensure that a cyberattack was not committed to manipulate the totals. There is no evidence that the results were hacked or that electronic voting machines were compromised. The Clinton campaign on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, did not respond to a request for comment as to whether it would petition for a recount before the three states’ fast-approaching deadlines to ask for one.

Fernandez: Counting on a recount

November 28, 2016

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...

FILE- In this April 12, 2016, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the keynote address at the F8 Facebook Developer Conference in San Francisco. CEOs of major companies are taking stands about the results of the November 2016 U.S. election, a departure from the traditional model of not mixing politics with business that the major brands have long espoused. Zuckerberg said “progress does not move in a straight line.” (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Medithi: Facebook a shaky political force

November 18, 2016

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...

Grissel: From joke to social experiment

Grissel: From joke to social experiment

November 18, 2016

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...

Brown: Glitzy rise of social capital

Brown: Glitzy rise of social capital

November 17, 2016

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,”...

Van Kirk: Trump good for Asia? Or not?

Van Kirk: Trump good for Asia? Or not?

November 17, 2016

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...