Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on Feb. 13 at a ranch in West Texas, where he was a guest. Scalia, 79, was a prominent conservative member of the court, and was well-known for his tendency...
Despite the imperative need for the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions globally, the Supreme Court has made the decision to block power plants from being forced to follow to emission limits set out...
On Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. Sanders’s victory in the Granite State will bring his name to national attention as South Carolina, Nevada,...
Point: Yes, regulation isn’t enough
Last week, a column by Steve Eisman ran in the New York Times titled “Don’t Break Up the Banks. They’re Not Our Real Problem.” This comes on...
Last week, the Associated Press reported that Chris Perkins, who conducted social research for the University of Iowa, “warned the university … a year ago that its public standing was suffering from...
The current presidential race has solidified the emerging post-Great Recession political landscape. A Pew Research poll published Feb. 4 highlighted public attitudes that have shaped the rhetoric of the...
On Feb. 3, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter made an assertion about the top threat facing America that has surprised some. The No. 1 national-security threat, in Carter’s view, is not ISIS, North...
President Obama made his first trip to a mosque as president on Wednesday in Baltimore in an effort to promote fair treatment of Muslims in this country and reinforce the message that freedom of religion...
On Monday night, several Daily Iowan Opinions columnists went to local caucuses and had very different takeaways from their experience.
Was it worth it?
I almost didn’t go to caucus. Amid the line...
The Lens too large for Ped Mall
Iowa City currently provides grants to subsidize the restoration of historic building façades. Two retailers have won Historic Preservation Awards for restoration of Clinton...
Poverty doesn’t just affect today’s workers but tomorrow’s as well. Johnson County has a rapidly increasing rate of childhood poverty. A report by the Child and Family Policy Center found a 25.5...
In the Daily Iowan Editorial Board’s endorsement discussion, we often ran into policy areas of contention. The five members of the board have different priorities and ideals. But when we came together...
