On Saturday, the streets of Iowa City will burst with the colors of the rainbow as residents and visitors gather to celebrate the city’s 43rd Pride celebration— an annual event dedicated to the...

Walking through Iowa City’s downtown, you might have noticed something of a new start for BenchMarks, the city’s communal bench-painting project that began last year. Almost every bench has...

For every white person arrested on marijuana charges in the state of Iowa, eight black people are arrested on similar charges, according to a recent study by the American Civil Liberties Union. The U.S....

Last week, the Iowa City City Council voted unanimously to approve the first reading of an ordinance that would restrict the use of many traffic-surveillance tools in Iowa City. The ordinance in question,...

Mother Nature ain’t screwin’ around no more. Climate change is here. Time to adapt. While Iowa City managed to weather the most recent flooding fairly well thanks to flood barriers and other...

Gun violence in America is treated the same way we handle a leaky faucet or a nagging hemorrhoid: accept it as the new norm until it overflows or explodes. Last week, in another explosion of violence,...

A recent national study by the American Civil Liberties Union has found that the state of Iowa ranks worst in the nation in the ethnic disparity of marijuana arrests. According to the study, African Americans...

I was walking home Sunday night when I happened upon the skeletal remains of Arts Fest, the erstwhile gates of which had been converted into a police barricade. Apparently, a suspicious package had caught...

So today, all the rage is the (alleged?) overreach of the NSA, which might be the gross, nearly obscene, overreach of the NSA, or the we’re-on-the-brink-of-dictatorial-tyranny, depending on which...

Summer is finally here. Now, instead of working out at the gym, I can go on my daily runs outside and enjoy the fresh air (Who am I kidding? I never run … or go to the gym). I can, however, sit on the...

According to classified documents leaked to The Guardian, a UK-based newspaper, the highly secretive National Security Agency has been collecting a remarkable amount of information about American citizens,...

I recently discovered that the government could be logging my calls and tracking my Google searches. It could be watching my Skype chats and thumbing through my emails. My reaction upon learning that...