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About two weeks before federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in Postville ten years ago today, a small news item …
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An Iowa City study, completed in 2014 and showing the monetary costs of chronic homelessness, is about to get a …
From the American Civil Liberties Union to the anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, there’s a growing bipartisan consensus that the war …
It’s truly too bad snake oil isn’t a source of energy, especially considering the sheer volume of flammable flimflam oozing …
Despite the hype of the past two years, about two-thirds of eligible voters will likely sit out the midterm election …
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