I wanted a vacation away from politics, but I didn’t get it. I took last week off from writing columns …
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I wanted a vacation away from politics, but I didn’t get it. I took last week off from writing columns …
We’ve felt this awful sinking feeling in the pit of our stomachs before, when the power of nature turns the …
I am sitting in a hotel with two children and a dog. We’ve been driven from our home in Cedar …
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, and we definitely have, is to get our daughter Tess moved into …
The famed historian Carl Becker once wrote that ‘everyman is his own historian.” Becker was trying to make the point …
A couple of weeks ago I did something I’ve never done before, holding a Canon camera away from my face, …
President Harry Truman did not need to drop the atomic bomb to end World War II. The first test explosion …
These are frightening numbers – 3,580, 72,000, 226,385, 130,800. The first is the number of American lives lost December 7, …
I grew up in the 1940s in the small Iowa town of Guthrie Center. That was my good fortune. I …
As promised back in June, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order this week automatically restoring voting rights to thousands …
The AFL-CIO has completed its annual CEO’s Paywatch and, once again, CEOs were drastically overpaid in the United States and …
Just weeks after a White House report declared Iowa a hot spot for the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Kim …
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