Asalamualikum wa rahmut Allahi wa barakatu [May peace and blessings be upon you]. It is likely you have seen a Muslim woman, if not me, choosing to cover her face with a niqab (face veil) on the news...

As students, we’re constantly surrounded by food. There are dining halls, convenience stores, small snacks in mini-fridges, and numerous downtown restaurants we pass going to and from class on a daily...

Following the release of Mitt Romney’s private fundraiser video, which exposed the embattled candidates’ condescending views on 47 percent of the country and his bizarrely laissez-fair Middle...

The University of Iowa is taking another step toward environmental sustainability with the construction of the new West Campus dorm. The new facility will include a more-efficient system of heating and...

It has been almost two years since President Obama lessened restrictions on travel to Cuba. This move made by our president provides academic, religious, and cultural groups with unparalleled opportunities...

Gas prices have been creeping toward $4 a gallon, the highest they have been in Iowa, and they are at the highest-ever September level nationally, according to AAA. Gas prices have risen in recent years,...

The White House late on Thursday announced the attacks on the American Embassy in Benghazi — which took four American and 10 Libyan lives — was an act of terror. Riots and protests occurred throughout...

The recent release of a secretly recorded video of Mitt Romney speaking to a group of donors last May has caused an intense reaction in the press. In the video, Romney noted the oft-quoted statistic that...

This fall, our very own Johnson County Board of Supervisors sold its former public-health building to the Crisis Center of Johnson County for only $1. Money doesn’t always matter, it seems. “We...

Game days are here. This means more fans, more food, more beer (for some of us), and, last but not least, more trash. George McCrory, a communications specialist for the University of Iowa Office of...

On Monday, as the United States found itself firmly removed from the glory days on Monday, both Joe Biden and Paul Ryan found themselves in Iowa. Though the odds of an off-the-cuff remark were through...

In response to your Sept. 19 article in [The Daily Iowan] press, “Grad students favor fee raise” and online, “UI grad students lobby to add student fee for advising services,” we...