The recent reports of sexual assault at the University of Iowa are not indicative of a new problem. Sexual assault and sexism are persistent issues that plague the university as well as our entire society....

DI Opinions Editor Zach Tilly and well-rounded pop-culture expert Ben Ross preview the Academy Awards. Buy or sell: 12 Years a Slave deserves the Best Picture Oscar Ross: Sell. 12 Years a Slave was good....

The year is 1998; the movie Titanic came out just months ago to overwhelming popular success, grossing over $2 billion worldwide. Leonardo DiCaprio has had the performance of his young career and is waiting...

Literature, among other platforms, allows for one to understand and appreciate the intersections that thrive in social-justice movements and American institutions. I spend much of my time reading. To...

It’s hard to know what’s true anymore. We have access to gobs of information thanks to the glories of the Internet, but all too often, it can be extremely difficult to parse fact from fiction. Ideological...

Last year, the mid-sized city of Portland, Maine, posed a question to its residents: Should adults found possessing marijuana be punished under the law? Portland’s 66,214 residents answered with...

Is it just me or is the world burning? That might be a dramatic way to look at it, but it seems as though everywhere I turn (actually, everywhere I click or scroll) people are protesting, and their grievances...

When you were 13, you learned that the world was not fair. You learned and memorized all those social codes about listening instead of talking. When you were 13, you learned that the people around you...

Among the myriad programs extended and altered by the recently passed farm bill are a number of conservation measures intended to advance the noble goals of fertile soil, clean water, and alternative-energy...

I spent my weekend playing Pokémon. But I’m not antisocial, you see. I played it with more than 100,000 people at the same time. This colossal play of a classic role-playing game is still happening,...

In August 1994, my mother dropped me off at Daum, where I would live for the next year as a freshman at the UI. Three weeks later, a student I had recently met attempted to rape me on the floor of a dorm...

So, it’s not bad enough that winter is stuck on Jan. 4 and seemingly believes that Iowa City is located in the middle of Alberta, Canada. Which is less fun than it sounds like. But we also have...