The unemployment rate for Americans 18-29 years old is nearly 12 percent. Given the increasing debt that students must incur for a college education, it’s no surprise that jobs is an important issue...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments that sought to end affirmative action on college campuses. The court this year, nearly a decade after upholding affirmative action...

Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Great Gatsby: besides for possibly being some of the best well-written books ever, what could they all possibly have in common? No, it’s not the themes...

With Johnson County’s current jail seeing 160 people per day despite maxing out at 92, the $46.8 million tab for a new justice center has been put on the ballot for November. Keeping in step with...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney touted an energy policy based on fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas — as a potential boon to Iowa’s farmers on Oct. 2. Romney’s chosen...

When my little sister was born, she came out blue. Recognizing her inability to breathe because of fluid in her lungs, the doctors immediately pumped her lungs and put her on oxygen. Within four hours,...

One concern among many opposed to the proposed justice center, particularly the thousands of sexual- and physical-assault survivors in Johnson County, is the type of screening that will be implemented...

The problems facing education are of grave concern. Education is a pivotal aspect in the presidential race, as well it should be, but not all suggested solutions would effectively improve education in...

Last week, we consumers of the news were treated to a pair of stories — one in the Press Citizen and another right here in The Daily Iowan — about the cost of University of Iowa President Sally Mason’s...

This Sunday marked 11 years since the United States began the war in Afghanistan. Veterans for Peace Iowa City Chapter 161, along with various cosponsors, held a peaceful observance of the war on the Pentacrest....

Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards stopped in Iowa City last week to promote President Obama’s re-election campaign and to discuss sexual health and women’s rights amid...

So the Good Ship Mitt won the debate with President Obama last week, and the pundit world goes wild. (I’m, obviously, not part of the pundit universe; I’m kind of off in the pun-dat world....