I watch a cathedral of trees, all this green and green and green that make up my days. You haven’t lived until all you can see through your second-floor windows are the green of trees and the flitting...

It’s been more than three years since the Affordable Care Act, now known by both proponents and detractors as Obamacare, was signed into law. Yet the effects of this overhaul of health-care insurance...

It’s tough to look at the pictures of Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Tom Harkin palling around with San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro, cooking steaks with their shirtsleeves rolled up, and not...

I remember when I was a senior in high-school doing college applications, all were stressed out about where they’d end up for the next four years. But now, when it comes to one’s studies, it...

Though economic conditions are improving or at least holding steady for many Americans, one group still faces an uncertain future: college students. The combination of a lackluster job market with increasing...

Inside each of us lives a small, misunderstood animal called bias that everyone seems to hate. On Tuesday, a column in The Daily Iowan gave our biases a severe beating. The column’s author wrote...

Plenty of college students stress and probably even lose a little sleep over their neglected classwork or the prospect of securing an internship pertinent to their career plans. The college grind inevitably...

Income inequality is an inherent product of any capitalist system and isn’t necessarily bad. It’s generally accepted that a gap in earnings helps motivate people to work harder and innovate, but extreme...

The Johnson County Board of Supervisors has decided to raise awareness of the devastating public-health problem of suicide by declaring this week to be “National Suicide Prevention Week in Johnson...

After a tough last season, roughly 3,000 student season tickets have gone unsold this year, according to a Daily Iowan report from August. The outlook is similarly bleak for Hawkeye football this year...

Twelve years after 9/11, we’ve finally reached the point where incoming freshmen — most of whom were about 6 years old at the time — have little working memory of that day. Nothing against them;...

Since 2011, Iowa has allowed the legally and completely blind to acquire permits to carry guns in public, which has received national attention this week. Proponents say the blind can be properly trained...