Keith Reed [email protected] The South Carolina Democratic primary will take place Saturday. In a 2014 survey, the U.S. Census Bureau found that almost 30 percent of South Carolina’s population...

Sydney Newton [email protected] If you perform a simple Google search of “college study drugs,” your first result will be Adderall, a prescription drug used to treat people diagnosed with...

Hannah Soyer [email protected] The summer after my freshman year of high school, I spent two weeks in New York City participating in a creative-writing program for teens. One of my most memorable...

Marcus Brown [email protected]  As much as I love highlighting the continuously evolving absurdity that is the Donald Trump phenomenon, I must take a moment to acknowledge a point where he has...

Keith Reed [email protected]  I have never had that big a problem with guns. That is because I was never a victim of gun violence or a mass shooting. I had not even touched a gun in my life until...

Jack Dugan [email protected] Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and controversial whistleblower, stated recently that he would be willing to return to the United States if he were to be guaranteed...

Beau Elliot [email protected] Thank God (or somebody — Donald Trump?) for human beings. How else would we be blessed with conspiracy theories? I mean, rocks are great for lots of things, but they’re...

Samuel Studer [email protected]  Earlier this month, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division took steps to sue the city of Ferguson, Missouri, for not accepting a negotiated plan to...

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] I don’t understand why people still try to mix politics and religion. Here we have two institutions that have existed hand-in-hand in the past but in the...

Jace Brady [email protected] On Feb 20, Democrats in Nevada and Republicans in South Carolina helped clarify the direction of the primary race. Though the results were fairly close to predictions,...

Marcus Brown [email protected]   Finding myself halfway through Black History Month with the end of President’s Obama second term fast approaching, I can’t help but feel sentimental. Every...

Joe Lane [email protected] Last week, The Daily Iowan reported that Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan, proposed a bill that would require Iowa State and the University of Iowa to pay $20 million over...