The University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll is preparing to go into the field this November. Because there aren’t many terribly important election races to follow this year, some may be hesitant to assign any...

As the leaves start to turn colors and the temperature drops, the unmistakable fall atmosphere is settling in. And with it comes a growing phenomenon: government shutdown season. As it so happens, shutdown...

A new poll from the Des Moines Register provides a look into the heads of Iowa’s Republican voters as they fantasize about the 2016 election, and there appears to be considerable disagreement about...

Whenever I tell someone that I am majoring in computer science, I usually get very surprised looks, because it’s relatively uncommon for women to pursue careers in the hard sciences. The underrepresentation...

A new report suggests that that for all their progress, Iowa’s women are still a long way from achieving meaningful equality. The State of Women report from the liberal-leaning Center for American...

Who needs government to segregate people? They do a great job of it themselves. Seriously. Take my old high school in a midsize Iowa town for example. About one-third of the students were Latino, and...

Last week, Iowa’s longtime Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley turned 80 years old. A few days after his birthday, Grassley made the surprising announcement that in 2016 (when he’ll be 83, for those...

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a federal law meant to improve educational accountability by administering yearly standardized tests to K-12 students. States were allowed to set their own scoring...

Last week, in a letter to the editor printed in the The Daily Iowan, the UI College Republicans argued that President Obama had “dropped the ball” when it came to his handling of the Bashar...

It’s common for University of Iowa students to consider greek life. However, not much thought is given to each chapter’s racial demographics. Recently, the University of Alabama’s National...

With the advent of social networks and Internet anonymity, bullying has become more prevalent and pressing across cyberspace and school hallways alike. Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has long been an advocate...

Sen. Ted Cruz, the first-term Republican from Texas, took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to deliver a fake filibuster. During his rant, undoubtedly calculated to reinforce his reputation as a conservative...