Todd Dorman

If Iowa’s caucuses are still, truly, a unique milepost on the road to the presidency, and not simply a rustic …

Always one for nuanced understatement, Newt Gingrich says our federal courts have become “grotesquely dictatorial.” Of course, the ideas man …

Prof. Stephen Bloom is truly the Michelangelo of hick-punching. Rarely has rural Iowa been smacked around as artfully as it is …

There’s an interesting (now revamped) online site, Capitol Words, created by the Sunlight Foundation, which tracks the words and phrases uttered by representatives …

If you believe the punditry, the out-of-touch label carries a $10,000 price tag. That’s how much Republican presidential hopeful Mitt …

I can’t understand why so many Republicans are eager to throw away a perfectly good Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential …

In March, local voters will emerge from winter quarters to show us if we’ll have 10 more years of sales …

Leave town for one lousy weekend and I miss seeing my first drone protest. Maybe you also missed it when …

Today’s print column, delayed by technical difficulty. Linda Seger first heard it about a month ago. She was dropping off …

Rev. Welton Gaddy says our founders sought to put constitutional space between religion and the nation’s new government for a very …

Today’s print column. We may soon find out if the First Amendment covers camping on a vacant lot on the corner of …

So former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is apparently, at this hour, your Republican presidential front-runner. Depending on how you look …

(Warning: Satire) Welcome to my Republican presidential potluck, Gov. Romney. So what did you bring? “I was going to bring …

This week, the president pardoned a fat turkey also known as the congressional Super Committee. It’s going to a nice …

I stopped at Occupy Cedar Rapids’ camp site at the corner of M Avenue and First Street NW this morning. …