Our lawmakers are facilitating housing discrimination if SF 252 passes through the Iowa Legislature. Current ordinances on the books in Iowa City, Des Moines, and Marion prevent landlords from denying...

I didn’t fully understand what the Stonewall riots were until I was 19 years old. I’d been slowly coming out of the closet for about 6 months before I attended the University of Iowa theatre department’s...

Instead of demonstrating a nuanced understanding of the mental health landscape, Iowa lawmakers chose to maintain Drug War-era criminalization of “psychedelic” compounds, which is policy deeply...

Abortions are crucial to reproductive health care, and pregnant people should have the privacy to look into alternative options without being targeted. Access to safe and legal abortions is a right...

I started writing my undergraduate thesis paper for my lab less than a foot from my bed in my parents’ new house. Beforehand, my thesis adviser and I talked about how we were going to work on...

Republican lawmakers in the Iowa House seem intent on repeating a modern-day version of the red scare. House File 222 would remove the funding from all schools, including community colleges and public...

Iowa Sen. Jim Carlin wants to single out and identify college professors because of their political leanings. Or at least, that is what I can contrive from Senate File 292.  It would order Iowa’s...

Iowa officials are serving up a steaming plate of hypocrisy. At the start of the pandemic, restaurant employees and other food service workers were considered essential, but these once-necessary workers...

It seems like Iowa Republicans’ default explanation for legislation micromanaging higher education is to protect free speech. But there hasn’t been a First Amendment issue on the University...

A bill, sponsored by GOP state Rep. Carter Nordman, of Adel, passed in the Iowa House requiring public and some private K-12 schools to show the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day....

We are in a student-debt crisis more severe than any other in history, and it’s driven by predatory spending from bonds issued by universities to finance building projects on campuses. Given the...

Rep. Ashley Hinson’s beef crusade is just another example of unjustified conservative outrage. In recent tweets, she has lambasted Bill Gates and the “radical left” after Gates suggested that...