It appears the fishermen are lifting their nets — dragnets, that is. Like any good angler, they’ll mark down the hot spot for next season. But was their catch worth it?
For the NSA, heading back to...
On Monday, the Iowa City City Council approved much needed-authorization for funding of a new temporary homeless shelter. The council OK’d a contribution of $20,000, with the possibility of an additional...
Where money for Medicare comes from is often under scrutiny, but what about where it goes? An incentive program that began in 2011 through the Affordable Care Act is coming to an end, and it will hit the...
Monday marked the beginning of Conference of Parties, a global climate-change conference in Paris. Last year’s conference in Lima, Peru, ended with a draft of a document called the “Lima Call for Climate...
In the increasingly connected and globalized world we live in, it seems only natural that international incidents because of communication breakdown would become obsolete, at least between countries. Military...
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
— Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievement of Propaganda
Terrorism is a response. By nature, satellite...
Last week, The Daily Iowan reported that the state of Iowa was assigned a D-plus integrity grade by the Center for Public Integrity. According to its website, the center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative...
Use of heroin is on the rise across the United States. The highly addictive opioid has seen an estimated growth in users of 300,000 over the last decade, according to a study by the Centers for Disease...
On the evening of Nov. 13, six different locations throughout Paris became the targets of a coordinated, simultaneous terror attack. At least 132 people have been killed, according to French officials,...
It’s no secret that Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign is sputtering. In Iowa, his internal statistics still rest in the single digits — a ubiquitous statement to the detriment of his tactics, exacerbated...
The U.S. infrastructure, once the envy of the world, is now a crippled, crumbling network of neglect. Bridges, highways, railways, and dams are among the decaying structures that have faced chronic neglect....
Last night, the Fox Business Network held the fourth Republican debate. Featuring “only” seven candidates this time around, the debate allowed those on stage to show substantive differences in policy,...
