It’s Halloween weekend. Accompanying the spooky decorations, abundance of Disney’s Frozen characters and raised sugar intake is the conversation of cultural appropriation surrounding costumes. Cultural...

Hannah Soyer hannah-soyer@uiowa.edu Barbie has never been a favorite among those of us who strive to move society forward in regards to empowering women and spreading positive body-image messages....

Samuel Studer samuel-studer@uiowa.edu  Years of irresponsible management of money has left Puerto Rico in a serious debt crisis. Puerto Rico is similar to Greece in that it is highly indebted and locked...

Joe Lane joseph-lane@uiowa.edu “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,” reads the Second...

Marcus Brown marcusvbrown@gmail.com On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson graced us with yet another drastic comparison when casting light on his ideological standpoint, this time comparing...

Beau Elliot beauelliot@gmail.com You say Benghazi, I say Sham-nazzi, let’s call the whole thing off. If only we could. But that would be like stopping the rain today, or engineering the Solar System...

Jace Brady jacebrady@gmail.com There were major shifts in the Democratic Party race last week. Most importantly, Vice President Joe Biden has announced he will not seek the nomination and, less importantly,...

Christopher Cervantes crvantes@uiowa.edu 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...

Sydney Newton Sydney-newton@uiowa.edu 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...

Marcus Brown marcusvbrown@gmail.com Showtime’s television series “Homeland” experienced an easily preventable mistake during an episode in the show’s fifth season in which Arabic graffiti in...

Keith Reed keith-reed@uiowa.edu 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...

Joe Lane joseph-lane@uiowa.edu 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...