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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

How we ruin politics

How we ruin politics

October 26, 2015

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] Politics has never been the easiest subject to understand. With the various ebbs and flows of legislative intrigue and controversy, many people are quick to jump...

Charities not always as they seem

Charities not always as they seem

October 26, 2015

Sydney Newton [email protected] According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, there are more than 1 million nonprofit organizations registered in the United States. It may or may...

Propaganda and fictional TV

Propaganda and fictional TV

October 22, 2015

Marcus Brown [email protected] Showtime’s television series “Homeland” experienced an easily preventable mistake during an episode in the show’s fifth season in which Arabic graffiti in...

Why I never fully started (or stopped) smoking

Why I never fully started (or stopped) smoking

October 22, 2015

Keith Reed [email protected] Cigarettes have been a big topic on campus. With the invention of e-cigarettes, this helped the smokers bypass the state’s smoking ban. But on Aug. 25, the university...

Next step for transgender acceptance: government bureaucracy

Next step for transgender acceptance: government bureaucracy

October 22, 2015

Joe Lane [email protected] Last week, CNN reported that the Transportation Security Administration would change some of the rhetoric featured on the agency’s website and would discontinue the...

Ending deaths in high-school football

Ending deaths in high-school football

October 22, 2015

Samuel Studer [email protected] On Oct 17, a Texas high-school student died after an injury in a football game. The Alto Texas Independent District reported that the student was junior Cam’ron...

We need to treat sexual health as a medical issue

We need to treat sexual health as a medical issue

October 21, 2015

Marcus Brown [email protected] Professional basketball player Lamar Odom was hospitalized recently after being discovered unconscious in a Nevada brothel. Found in his system was a superfluous...

‘Blast from the Jim Crow past’

‘Blast from the Jim Crow past’

October 21, 2015

Jacob Prall [email protected] “A blast from the Jim Crow past.” This sound bite from Hillary Clinton  on Oct. 17 encapsulates the issue behind the closing of 31 offices to acquire and renew...

‘White feminism’ is still feminism

‘White feminism’ is still feminism

October 20, 2015

Hannah Soyer [email protected] Jennifer Lawrence recently published an essay in fellow actress Lena Dunham’s feminist newsletter, Lenny Letter, called “Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?”...

Grate, grater, gratest

Grate, grater, gratest

October 20, 2015

Beau Elliot [email protected] Hey, Indianapolis Colts, ya wanna talk about deflated play calling? Nah. I didn’t think so. (But somehow, it’s Tom Brady’s fault, right? I mean, so much is.) We’re...

Martin O'Malley speaks to supporters at the Iowa City Federation of Labor Picnic at Upper City Park on Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. Martin O'Malley will be running in the 2016 Presidential Election for the 45th President of the United States. (The Daily Iowan/Courtney Hawkins)

Democratic presidential candidates on the back burner

October 19, 2015

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] When the Democratic debate was advertised, it was made out to be a grandiose event, in which two heavy hitters would go head to head against one another on...

Big burdens in health-care cost for seniors

Big burdens in health-care cost for seniors

October 19, 2015

Jace Brady [email protected] Seniors, brace yourselves, because winter is coming. Over the last several weeks, the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services released plans for Medicare Part B rate...