I can vividly remember watching coverage of the 2008 election in my eighth-grade classroom as the country prepared for one of the most historic elections in the history of the United States. Regardless...

On Dec. 1, the Daily Iowan Editorial Board urged the CIA to release an internal report on “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the conduct of its agents. On Tuesday, the Senate...

It seems I’ve been paying a lot of attention in my Media Law class this semester because the second a 7-foot tall Ku Klux Klan statue was erected and than hastily removed from the Pentacrest, I believed...

In response to the lack of indictments in the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, media ranging from television news to the Internet have been flooded with images from the resulting protests. The go-to...

Dear Readers: If you answered “C,” then you circled the same letter I did. And as the Editor-in-Chief of the DI, I believe it’s time our readership become aware of how the access we...

If one watched the coast-to-coast protests over the last few weeks, they’d see a nation in mourning. The outrage and shock over the numerous recent killings by police officers has begun to dissipate,...

On the surface, what occurred in the meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week must have seemed preposterous — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tied a proposal to declare war on ISIS to a completely...

The reason people flock to mediocre horror films, despite the inevitable painfully bad acting, is that on some minimal level, they are believable. They present an elaborative narrative that tells the basics...

So, do we now believe that Ohio State has three better quarterbacks than Iowa's two? Well, does the Sun rise in the east? I wonder if, before next season, the Buckeyes would be willing to trade No. 3...

Iowa City celebrated its 175th birthday this past weekend: The party included horse-drawn carriage rides, fireworks, and other celebratory activities. Iowa City certainly deserves praise; it was ranked...

There are some stories out in the airways that will always cause viewers/listeners to scratch their heads and ponder why — as in, why is this even happening? I’m not talking about truly horrific...

One of the first things I heard upon arriving to London was more than 300 different languages are commonly spoken each day in Britain’s capital. New York City is the only other city in the world...