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...

Sydney Newton [email protected] If you ventured out into the cold and rain that Iowa was prone to this year for Black Friday, you might have noticed that the crowds of shoppers were less crazy...

Joe Lane [email protected] Though not everyone in the GOP is ignorantly opposed to the Muslim community in the United States and around the world, a vocal minority led by presidential candidates...

Iowa’s infatuation with Ted Cruz I just cannot contain my anger at the Iowa religious right’s gullibility when it comes to Ted Cruz. Cruz is a senator from Texas, where ethanol is against the law,...

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...

Marcus Brown [email protected] It is impossible to look at any form of news media without being constantly barraged with stories attempting to dissect and analyze the senseless deaths that can...

Beau Elliot [email protected] Just when you thought Democrats and Republicans were pretty much like Unionists and Confederates (which is not that far off the mark, geographically), reality slaps...

Positive Change for Free Medical Clinic In May 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama publically unveiled his health care plan at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.  I was an undergraduate student...

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...

Jace Brady [email protected] Every four years, a hybrid of constitutionality and party bylaws dictates a compelling nine-month period of political mayhem. Men and women from the most elite classes...

Christopher Cervantes [email protected] Any individual who is in the public eye is aware that there is a certain burden that forever weighs on their shoulders. Every choice, every action, is conducted...

In the wake of recent terror attacks that devastated Paris, we want to affirm that we stand with the people of that great city. Like our own communities, Paris is a river city, and whether you are on the...