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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

A toe in the foreign-policy water

WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL March 10, 2009

The Obama administration’s opening forays into foreign affairs have been as calibrated and cautious as its domestic policy has been bold. Last month, President Obama laid out a strategy for Iraq that...

Watchmen reminds one of a forgotten threat

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 9, 2009

More Americans watched the Watchmen this past weekend than any other movie. Though primarily valuable as an artistic work, this film should spur us all to reconsider a threat many seem to have forgotten:...

Internet graddiction

EMILEIGH BARNES March 9, 2009

I’ve applied for a lot of things in my life, scholarships, jobs, fellowships, internships, college, etc. But this year, applying to graduate school has been somewhat distinct. I can track every painful...

Solidarity with the student press

GUEST EDITORIAL March 6, 2009

From The Daily Californian On Wednesday morning, the entire editorial staff of the Daily Emerald — the independent student newspaper of the University of Oregon — went on strike in protest of the...

Keep Salvia legal

CHRISTOPHER PATTON March 6, 2009

When smoked, Salvia divinorum can yank out the rational mind, throw it to the ground, stamp on it and finally rub one’s nose in the resulting mess. I recommend giving it a try — especially because...

Lent and the shackles of cyberspace

COLIN GILBERT March 6, 2009

For some, favorites are chocolate and snack food. Some give up driving for biking or even walking. Some choose cigarettes, just when the glaciers have finally retreated and it’s finally warm enough...

Democrats trying to change the subject

JOHN BOEHNER - GUEST OPINION March 6, 2009

In the first two months of 2009, the Democratic Congress and the White House have spent more money than the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the response to Hurricane Katrina. After they...

Point-counterpoint: The popular-vote conundrum

DI EDITORIAL WRITERS March 5, 2009

Point — National popular vote is good for Iowa Be brave, Iowa senators. Approve the national popular-vote bill, and take Iowa into the next American political era. Send a message to the Electoral College...

Banning Barbie

NATE WHITNEY March 5, 2009

BIt’s a warm June day in 2010, and in Huntington, W.V., a Toys ’R’ Us store is quiet save for a handful of customers slowly wandering the aisles. An employee is standing idly at the register, another...

Obama should move on Colombian free trade

LA TIMES EDITORIAL March 5, 2009

President Obama’s trade agenda is nothing if not ambitious. His just-released policy statement, titled “Making Trade Work for American Families,” ties trade to energy efficiency and environmental...

The Czech-Slovak Museum needs flood repairs

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 3, 2009

Tales of the Cedar Rapids flood have shifted from horror stories of the disaster itself to drawn-out epics of trudging through recovery purgatory. Accompanying anecdotes of struggling with the destruction,...

How to fight a Depression – not a drop at a time

In recent months, it has become almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats — a “jihad against private enterprise”...