Bernie Sanders announced his bid as a 2020 presidential candidate on Feb. 19 through a video posted to Twitter. In the video, he outlined his platform for the upcoming 2020 presidential election It includes free college tuition, a Medicare for all plan, raising the national minimum wage to $15, endingRead More

I spent my formative years from colicky infancy to teenage rebellion socialized in Midwestern values by church-going folks who called rural Iowa home. My hometown of Humboldt is nestled among orderly rows of corn and soybean plants in the north central region of the state. When I was a child,Read More

Animals have always been a part of my life. Growing up in rural Iowa, I have had many cats, two dogs, two lambs, two very short lived fish, and one horse with an attitude. When I first went off to college, saying goodbye to my dog was one of theRead More

The wage gap has become a heavily-contested, hot-button issue with the rising clash of ‘SJW liberal snowflakes rekt’ YouTube compilations from anti-feminists, and a ‘#woke’ Twitter culture holding politics and individuals under a left-leaning microscope. Of course we have all heard the long-standing statistic that women make 75 to 82Read More

Day by day we see the English language evolve, and with it the phrases and terms we use. Gone are the days of radical, gnarly terms and groovy language. Away with the classic “talk to the hand,” “eat my shorts,” and like totally righteous words. Like, why can’t slang justRead More

Ah, Iowa winter. After several mild years, it has emerged from hibernation, not with the same vengeance we have known in the past, but still enough to keep us tucked inside and off the roads. I do not think many Iowa natives would deny the fun of sledding down hugeRead More

By Stanley Fredericksen, Guest Writer Dear DMACC Student, Did you know that non-traditional students (over the age of 25) are slowly becoming the new majority of college students as opposed to those fresh out of high school? Are you a late bloomer? A returning student? Do you want to shareRead More

Over time, states have slowly begun decriminalizing, and even legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. What once was met with scare tactics and propaganda (e.g., “Reefer Madness,” 1936) has increasingly been perceived as a drug comparable to alcohol. The National Institute on Drug Abuse suggests that marijuana is the mostRead More