Marcus Brown
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 As much as I love highlighting the continuously evolving absurdity that is the Donald Trump phenomenon, I must take a moment to acknowledge a point where he has...
Keith Reed
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 I have never had that big a problem with guns. That is because I was never a victim of gun violence or a mass shooting.
I had not even touched a gun in my life until...
Time for Grassley to go
Sen. Chuck Grassley has been part of Iowa’s congressional delegation since 1975. Over the course of his career, he’s done a lot of work for Iowans. I think it’s great that...
The Washington Post reported last week about the case of a Kansas man who discovered that his voting registration had been purged from the state’s system. The man, Ralph Ortiz, is an Air Force veteran...
Jack Dugan
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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and controversial whistleblower, stated recently that he would be willing to return to the United States if he were to be guaranteed...
Beau Elliot
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Thank God (or somebody — Donald Trump?) for human beings. How else would we be blessed with conspiracy theories?
I mean, rocks are great for lots of things, but they’re...
Samuel Studer
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Earlier this month, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division took steps to sue the city of Ferguson, Missouri, for not accepting a negotiated plan to...
On the day that former Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush officially announced his campaign, June 15, 2015, America seemed to be his oyster. The candidate hardly had to do any real campaigning...
Christopher Cervantes
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I don’t understand why people still try to mix politics and religion. Here we have two institutions that have existed hand-in-hand in the past but in the...
Jace Brady
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On Feb 20, Democrats in Nevada and Republicans in South Carolina helped clarify the direction of the primary race. Though the results were fairly close to predictions,...
UI Symphony and IMU
Congratulations to the UI Symphony for an outstanding performance on Feb. 17. I’m not a bona fide music critic so I won’t get in over my head. But I know and love Brahms’ First...
A showdown between America’s tech companies and the U.S. government has been brewing largely behind the scenes. Agencies such as the FBI have requested user information from entities such as Google,...
