When high school graduate Paxton Smith switched her approved graduation speech to talk about reproductive rights, she had no idea her voice would be heard by millions. Smith’s speech sparked a conversation...
Local government and Iowa schools are in trouble as Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Republican party have chipped away at their fundamental powers.
From attempts to control the police budgets to...
The hyper-inflation hawks have returned.
Iowa Republicans, chief amongst them Sen. Joni Ernst, have begun to bang the gavel about how a looming inflation crisis will harm American families because...
My former professor said any kid who identifies as gay or lesbian and grows up in a conservative household will be oppressed.
This accusation makes it seem like you cannot be queer and conservative,...
Imagine sitting at your desk finishing the final words of your essay, believing that this will be the most stressful moment in your college career. However, you find that the biggest stressor is...
I had never given much thought about why I love to write or why I became a journalist. It was simply an unnarrated decision, a path I walked down without a purpose. But the past four years at The Daily...
I’ve always been uncomfortable touting my own accomplishments.
But for The Daily Iowan team, I’ll cheer until my voice is hoarse.
And that team atmosphere is what I’ve cherished, and how...
Ever since I was little, I wanted to tell a story.
My mom will laugh when she reads this, but when I was in elementary school, I wrote my first book, titled, “Where are the puppies?” It was...
If you had told me when I first walked into The Daily Iowan newsroom four years ago that I would eventually stand face-to-face with Joe Biden for an interview about his sexual assault allegations,...
As photojournalists, we’re taught to look at everything in front of us through a lens. We’re taught to press a button at the right place and the right time. We’re taught to not make it too bright...
As a junior in college preparing to apply to law school, I never anticipated how massively the pandemic would affect my life, particularly during this year’s law school admissions process. I’m...
If you asked me in high school what I expected from my future as a college journalist, I would’ve said I could cover complex problems affecting my new home. I definitely wouldn’t have mentioned...
