Paul Osgerby [email protected] Russia has recently ramped up its involvement in the regional power struggle of Syria, launching its first air strikes in the country in what Moscow is calling efforts...

Jacob Prall [email protected] Mr. Chaffetz. Oh boy, Mr. Chaffetz. Republican representative out of Utah, Jason Chaffetz. What are you doing running for speaker of the House? Chaffetz, age 48, bright-eyed...

Sydney Newton [email protected] Brandon Stanton, the creator of Humans of New York, is doing something incredible. The art/humanities website has more than 15 million likes on Facebook. Simply...

Jace Brady [email protected] There was a time when no one would dare move against American interests in any part of the world, least of all the Middle East. This era seems to have come to an end as...

By Samuel Studer [email protected] The situation in the worn-torn city of Kunduz, Afghanistan got a little more difficult.  The aid organization Doctors Without Borders withdrew from the city....

Joe Lane [email protected] In the past few weeks, there have been a number of articles with headlines that start, “Move over millennials …” indicating that Generation Y is no longer in the...

Hannah Soyer [email protected] A recent investigation conducted by the Des Moines Register found that there was a significant backlog in Social Security disability cases overseen by Administrative...

Beau Elliot [email protected] In this life, you gotta know the angles first. My junior-high geometry teacher said that. Or maybe it was my bookie. (Except I don’t have a bookie. Explains why...

Marcus Brown [email protected] The latest in what can only be described as an epidemic of mass shootings in the U.S occurred in Roseburg, Oregon, at Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1. The tragedy...

Keith Reed [email protected] On Sept. 28, NASA announced it had discovered evidence of flowing water on Mars. NASA used a technique that detected hydrated minerals flowing down mountain slopes. Space...

Jace Brady Sen. Marco Rubio stood about five rows in front of me in an intimate town hall hosted by Mudd Advertising. To my left sat Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters and to my right another...

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] On Oct. 1, artist and activist Traci Molloy visited the University of Iowa campus and spoke about her various projects and works. Molloy was a key figure in several...