So now, the incredibly intelligent and all-knowing City Council wants us to hide our outdoor garbage containers. Perhaps indoors. All to save the children in Darfur, of course. (Saving the children in...

The state of Iowa is bleeding — and there are not enough doctors to stop it. Iowa has one of the worst physician-to-resident ratios in the nation, with neighboring states Wisconsin, Minnesota, and...

President Obama’s proposal, in last week’s State of the Union Address, to raise the national minimum wage to $9 per hour and allow it to grow along with inflation has rekindled the national...

The U.S. Postal Service has been having financial troubles for quite a while. But when the service reached its limit in September 2012 of $15 billion set by Congress, it was evident that major changes...

They race around the Pedestrian Mall, giving one another piggyback rides, they stumble around, trip and fall in deafening fits of laughter, and look like they’re having the time of their lives. Drunk...

America is a gun country, and that won’t change. America won sovereignty when ordinary citizens grabbed rifles and rose up against the greatest military of the time. America perfected its...

At a meeting with the state Board of Regents on Feb. 6, the University of Iowa presented an internal audit discussing allegations concerning former Athletics Department staff member Peter Gray. An audit...

If you watched the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, and you really stuck with it, you probably remember when President Obama pointed out 102-year-old Desiline Victor, a Florida woman who waited...

Our university finds itself in the midst of shattering trauma, a snide and tumultuous loss of identity, a disastrous crisis so severe that our own Daily Iowan has labeled it a fate “worse than death”:...

President Obama used his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday evening to outline an ambitious second-term agenda built, in large part, on campaign promises to boost economic growth and put unemployed...

Today, a majority of campus will either celebrate or actively avoid Valentine’s Day, a holiday that has evolved into the epitome of commercialized love. Others, however, will partake in a different...

Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was an American hero. He was considered to be the greatest sniper in U.S. history, and he was so deadly that the Iraqi militants had a bounty on his head. The man once coined...