In a whirlwind news week that saw the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the ugly repression of Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela come forth, and Sally Mason’s unfortunate opinions...

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...

I was born and raised in the frigid state of Minnesota. I’ve spent countless winters in subzero temperatures and been to baseball games in May during which snow covered the unoccupied seats. I’ve...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In a scheduled interview with The Daily Iowan on Feb. 18, University of Iowa President Sally Mason gave the following response to a question about the increase in the number of reported...

It has been a week of turmoil and unrest across the world, from protests turned violent crackdown in Ukraine to massive street demonstrations in Venezuela to ongoing suppression of free speech in Sochi,...

The closest thing we have to evil incarnate is probably best represented in Adolf Hitler, so when someone is compared to this guy, this person in question must be pretty awful. Or the president of the...

Earlier this month, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Americans are too sensitive about race: “My sadness is that we are probably today more race and difference conscious than I was in...

College athletes must always deal with the competing demands of sport and academia, making sure their performance doesn’t slip in either to continue playing. In high-contact sports such as football,...

Marvel Comics, the American comic-book publisher that created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, and many other favorite American superheroes, débuted a new superheroine this month that I hope...

Amid my weekend spent Googling and thus fangirl-ing over various Olympic athletes (specifically, skier Gus Kenworthy and his Russian-born puppy posse), I came across various articles splashing the information...

Monday marked the fifth anniversary of the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the Stimulus Package. The bill, a massive conglomeration of public works,...

A few years ago, my sister and I may have made the four-hour roundtrip from our hometown in Illinois to the Indiana border for the sole purpose of buying and smuggling back home a small number of relatively...