A fledgling American political movement recently achieved its first major victory on the national stage. This month, President Donald Trump …
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A fledgling American political movement recently achieved its first major victory on the national stage. This month, President Donald Trump …
This past week, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and professional rich man Michael Bloomberg announced their 2020 presidential campaigns. Which …
So there’s a multimillion dollar national conservative Super PAC headquartered in Marion. It’s in an ordinary house on the north …
Law enforcement agencies in Iowa and across the nation are undergoing one of the fastest technological transitions in modern history. …
Bill Montgomery sat in the hall of the Iowa Memorial Student Union and whispered to me that socialism is infecting …
For three years, Rev. Anna Blaedel, an openly queer Methodist minister and former director of the Wesley Center at the …
‘Julian Castro is right” is not a sentence I thought I would write. But 2019 has been a crazy ride …
Texas will soon execute a man for a crime he almost certainly did not commit. Rodney Reed has been on …
Republicans who run the Statehouse are not serious about taking a deep dive into Iowa’s large, expensive pool of business …
That U.S. House impeachment inquiry commences with real live public testimony this week. And the whole sordid, televised saga may …
It’s always something on this land: withering summers, freezing winters, flooding springs, trade wars, and pesticides. One third of our …
Last week’s local elections were the first contests in Iowa under a fully implemented voter ID law. I’m an avid …
It’s common to see opposition to immigration cloaked in economic anxiety – all at the same time, immigrants will take …
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