Growing up, I always wanted one thing: a flying car. Half of that dream may have been fueled by my childhood obsession with “The Jetsons,” but the other half was undoubtedly molded out of hope...

The battle over the minimum-wage increase may never end. This week, Iowa Democrats plan to move a bill out of committee that will provide an increase to hourly minimum wage by $1.50 by July 2016. The...

Remember measles? Me, neither. Remember when Ebola-mania swept every corner of the country, and it turned out that the outbreak was thousands of miles away, on the other side of a fairly major body of...

The concept of “pregaming,” or drinking before an event or gathering, is certainly not a foreign one for Iowa students. Apparently, the act is familiar to the Supreme Court as well. Immediately...

I saw a revolting guest opinion on the Press-Citizen website the other day: an author based in Iowa City chalking up (or perhaps I should say down) feminism to sexualized freedom of expressions from certain...

The prospect of at least one of Iowa’s four major mental institutions being closed in the near future has created apprehension among those with a stake in the operations of Iowa’s mental-health facilities....

The fashion industry accomplished a tremendous social milestone earlier this week. Jaime Brewer, known for her activism and various roles on the tremendously popular television show “American Horror...

On Tuesday, The Daily Iowan reported that “Iowa lawmakers have set their sights on raising the state’s gas tax, as state’s infrastructure continues to erode and a deadline nears.”...

Given the civil unrest sparked by events in New York City and Ferguson in July and August 2014, it should come as no surprise that lawmakers in Des Moines are drafting a bill that would require all uniformed...

The Canadian government is planning on introducing a bill that would drastically expand the power of law enforcement and federal government to prevent acts classified as terrorism. The bill, titled Bill...

In February 2011, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta stated before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: “The potential for the next Pearl Harbor could very well be a cyber attack.”...

The government has many departments dedicated to the sole purpose of analyzing and reporting economic data. One of the most talked about metrics is the unemployment rate, which is released monthly by the...