High school writers connect across chasms with Page Poetry Contest
IOWA CITY — With the 2020 murder of George Floyd, and the trial of the officer who killed...
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Category: Columns
Trans kids (and everyone): don’t listen to Caitlyn Jenner, misinformed fallen hero
That collective groan you heard recently? It was the transgender community nationwide learning...
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Lies, melodrama, and the hunger to control guns and drugs: roots of police brutality
Days after Derek Chauvin’s trial resulted in full convictions last week for George...
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A future to avoid on display with Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest
NEW YORK CITY — How do you persuade naysayers that climate change is real, that the earth is...
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Stealth agents, special agents: A lighter look at how COVID vaccines work
“As an ICU nurse, I’ve watched far too many die from COVID in the past year. I’m also...
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Virtual ‘dog eat dog’ world of vaccine access calls for new tone, greater sensitivities
We are now deep in the throes of pervasive vaccine inequity. No clearer illustration exists than a...
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Gun control has racist roots, gun ownership now a need for activists
The January 6, 2021 insurrection at our nation’s Capitol showcases the increasing boldness...
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Iowa, Florida still seized by Trumpism, Republican culture wars
Iowa and Florida both went strongly Trump in the 2020 election. Both are led by governors who...
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The Biden-Harris era as an antidote to nihilism, full-spectrum
Today’s the start of the Biden-Harris era. But more importantly, let’s make it the “End of...
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“Basic ethical principle that is equally good for everyone” is focus of two-parter
Please partake of the information in this two-part attempt to close out The Real...
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