It's rare to have any good news at all. But if we are wanting some, plus if we are wanting to have a sense of how we are doing as left of center folks going forward, special elections are the way to go. And this...
Iowa
This is the grave of Jack Miller. Born in 1916 in Chicago, Miller grew up there. But at the age of 16, his family moved to Sioux City, Iowa. He.
Will it surprise you that Iowa's pro-child labor law is a complete disaster? No, I don't suppose it will. Iowa businesses have been openly disregarding federal rules about when and.
For our latest podcast, we talked to Pamela Riney-Kehrberg from Iowa State University about her recent book When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. This was a wide-ranging conversation that explored, among other things, the connections between the farm...
Donald Trump attended the Iowa-Iowa State game yesterday. He was, uh, not universally wanted. I believe we can do something with this picture in comments.
Ah yes, the states....... Nearly eight years after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage and several months after Congress codified gay nuptials, Iowa legislators proposed banning such unions in their.
Not enough workers? Well, sure, we could pay more. Or we could open the doors to the millions of immigrants who wish to come and work here. But instead, Republicans are going toward their more favored choice--legalizing child labor. Legislators in Iowa and Minnesota introduced...
Two armed American border guards confront a group of immigrants attempting to cross illegally from Mexico into the United States in 1948. In A Line in the Sand, Rachel St..
At the very least, kicking Iowa and its utterly undemocratic and poorly run caucus system out of the first presidential primary spot will have serious benefits for the nation. It.
Unsplash Whenever I think of Sen. Joni Ernst, I think of how she tried to pretend she had been a folksy, humble farm girl by completely fucking up an anecdote involving bread bags during her SOTU rebuttal. And incidentally, implied that Iowa moms regularly tried...
This is insubstantial but cool and fun: History lovers can now hoist a glass in honor of a 19th century beer cave that has been rediscovered.Connected to a brewery with.
While I am skeptical of Democrats winning in lily white Iowa anytime soon, Abby Finkenauer should be a great choice to take on Old Man Grassley. Except that her campaign.