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I woke up one day last week to learn I no longer exist. The Atlantic published a commentary under the …
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched all of our lives in some way over the past week. Moments of such impact …
In December of 2015, at a campaign rally in North Carolina, a 12-year-old girl came up to Donald Trump and …
On the day I spoke with professor Kate O’Neill via Skype from Kabul, Afghanistan, two rivals each claiming the country’s …
Thousands of Iowans would lose access to the medicine they need under legislation approved by the Iowa House. Republicans passed …
Ellen Keyser Endelman’s whole life is a quarantine. The 24-year-old seminary student lives in Iowa City and, because of a …
More than 100 years, ago, Iowa Citians staged an anti-government uprising. ‘Beer Money,” a new novel by local author S.C. …
After a decade of lobbying Statehouse leaders to fill the Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust fund, some cracks have …
Beverly Young lives in Cedar Rapids, is 82 and wants to tell you a story. She wants to tell you …
Somebody, anybody, please remind Kim Reynolds that she is governor of Iowa, with vast powers and authority, with a bully …
It’s not exactly fresh political commentary, so you’ve probably heard this one before: Libertarians are just Republicans who smoke pot. …
As the debris clears from Super Tuesday, Democrats are talking a lot about unity. Already, the unification of the party …
Well, at least ‘bait and switch” sounds like outdoor recreation. Because that’s what those of us who voted in 2010 …
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