It seems that Iowa Republicans believe school principals have equal authority and knowledge to public health experts when it comes to mandating safety requirements. A proposal by Iowa Sen. Amy Sinclair,...

For the past three months, I signed into my Zoom classes with a backdrop of palm trees and hibiscus flowers, and frequent visits from curious lizards climbing the side of my laptop. I drank my coffee...

To those concerned: the liberal agenda is not coming for your burgers. Earlier this month, Sen. Joni Ernst published a column decrying the “war on meat.” Pushing back against the perceived liberal...

As life is slowly beginning to return to a sense of normalcy, it is easy to forget that locally owned businesses are continuing to face financial hardships as a lingering result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Back...

The University of Iowa has well over 200 student organizations and activities to take part in, and students have plenty of opportunities to socialize with one another. This would be the case during...

This past year has brought up a lot of trauma among communities of color. With the numerous hate crimes within the Asian American Pacific Islander community and the police brutality Black and Brown...

While the result of the Derek Chauvin trial was an example of accountability in our policing system, America still has a long way to go when it comes to racial justice. For Iowa, we still have to make...

There is a bonding relationship between the physical copy of a book and its unexpected in-person find that the internet cannot replicate. With many local bookstores closed for in-person browsing, and...

The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics network is impressive and a positive force in Iowa City and to the global community. Its health care workers deserve adequate pay to keep up with patient...

My dad was a Virginia Polytechnic Institute graduate student during the horrific shooting. Seung-Hi Cho, the student responsible for these heartbreaking murders, wrote violent assignments for English...

With everyone's eyes on the criminal justice system in the wake of Derek Chauvin’s trial, there's an important aspect that relates directly back to Iowa that we need to speak about. American prisons...

Iowa’s voter redistricting process is unique and one of the fairest in the country, but it’s about to face a new challenge. The delay in U.S. census results caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...