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...

Samuel Studer [email protected] A rally was held Monday in New York for a group of three black female students who were attacked by 10 to 12 white men and women. The students, who attend the...

Jacob Prall [email protected] Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are being watched. We forget that our problems at home have a global context. At the very least, I do. Maybe I forget because...

Joe Lane [email protected] Nonprofit organizations in the United States hold a powerful and important place in our society. When problems face our communities that governments are unwilling,...

Before the caucuses, a group of Iowa athletes gave their tacit (and explicit) endorsement to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Should they have done it?    No On Jan. 26, Donald...

Sydney Newton [email protected] It’s not often we think about the demographics of students at our university. We have been prone to think that most of the students are usually from our own state...

Jack Dugan [email protected] Arguably, one of the few blemishes on presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s run for the presidency is his lack-there-of foreign-policy experience. Perhaps,...

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...

Christopher Cervantes People have a funny way about looking at the past. Whenever a subject associated with a positive event is brought up, there is always an air of reverence about it all. Conversely,...

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...

Keith Reed [email protected] Many voters were shocked to hear that Donald Trump entered the presidential race for the Republican Party. I was one of them (granted, I do not care too much for politics,...