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...

Sydney Newton [email protected] In today’s campus environment, college students are changing and clamoring for progress constantly, as the results of a recent study done by researchers from...

Hannah Soyer [email protected] Alan Pean, 26, checked himself into a hospital in August 2015 seeking treatment for an episode he was having relating to his bipolar disorder. But instead of receiving...

Keith Reed [email protected] On the heels of Beyoncé’s performance at the Super Bowl, where she referenced the Black Panthers, I’m reminded of a speech delivered by Huey Newton on the liberation...

Jack Dugan [email protected] On Feb. 13, conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at the age of 79 after suffering a heart attack on vacation at a Texas resort. He was nominated by...

Beau Elliot [email protected] Hello, Republicans. What do you have to say about … What the? Hmm. Voicemail again. And I was going to ask them if they thought it’s odd that an Iowa Republican...

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] Out of all the rights afforded to us, as American citizens, the right to free speech is easily the one that is the closest to the hearts of the public. Without...