Since the dawn of Internet file sharing, software and music piracy has abounded through such services as Napster or Kazaa, where many people have skirted the edges of the law to get a new album or software...

Over the past several decades, cigarettes have fallen far in the popular imagination. Once they were widely considered cool, slick, and “torches of freedom,” as one ad campaign branded them....

I normally don’t pay much attention to beauty contests — I don’t think they are very relevant. But I can’t ignore this year’s Miss America pageant, especially given the backlash...

It’s the fourth week of school, and my afternoon lecture is suffering from an acute case of premature senioritis. The course, which fulfills one of several general-education requirements on my degree...

At least 12 people and a gunman are dead after a shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., Monday. This is, of course, only the most recent of mass shootings in a tragically long line. Since 2006,...

On Monday, The Daily Iowan reported that local developers have again turned their eyes to downtown Iowa City with plans to potentially bring yet another high-rise to our skyline. Currently, concerned citizens...

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...