Samuel Studer [email protected] Leonard Campanello, the police chief of Gloucester, Massachusetts, has taken a stand again the War on Drugs. Last spring, he made headlines after writing on his...

Earlier in the heated presidential race, Planned Parenthood was an issue that was featured in many candidate appearances and debates. Used by Republican candidates to express just how conservative they...

Marcus Brown [email protected] Donald Trump’s presidential campaign can at times seem surreal in the sheer audacity of his ideology and rhetoric, but at some level many of us held the comfort...

Jacob Prall [email protected] Seems like clean water’s been on everyone’s mind lately. First, we had the drought in California, then the Flint, Michigan, lead water fiasco; the importance of...

From college campuses to talk shows to local coffeehouses, a national discussion about racism and bigotry has spread throughout the United States. One bigotry often left out of this conversation is anti-Semitism....

Beau Elliot [email protected] Sometimes in this life — oh, wait, this is a life? Why didn’t somebody tell us? Just like them. They never tell us anything. Except where to buy the next electronic...

Support Sanders for strong unions Sen. Bernie sanders is a strong advocate for middle-class union workers Unions are the essence of the middle class; they provide equal pay among your male and female...

Christopher Cervantes Crvantes.edu.@uiowa Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, R-Wilton, the head of the House Government Oversight Committee, has ordered an investigation into the state’s LGBT youth conference...

The Iowa Medicaid program assists in providing or provides health care to 560,000 Iowans. Prior to recent events, the Medicaid system in Iowa has been among the most efficient in the United States, with...

When the news about the NSA’s mass surveillance programs broke in 2013, the bubbling furor over the secret (and potentially unconstitutional) programs led many pundits to claim that a sort of indignant...

Jace Brady [email protected] This week has significantly changed the political landscape in Iowa, as the first-in-the-nation caucuses grow ever nearer. Several important endorsements were made, accusations...

Jacob Prall [email protected] My parents are reasonable people. Sadly, their level-headedness abandoned them when, like a mesmerizing shimmer in the distance, the Powerball jackpot reared its ugly...