Former Iowa Law Professor Katie Porter Elected to Congress in California
Katie Porter, a 44-year-old former University of Iowa law professor who studied under Elizabeth Warren at Harvard Law, on Thursday officially defeated former investment...
Amid Mounting Ethics Woes, Iowa Republicans Stand By Matt Whitaker
Before the election, the Informer looked at the rumors swirling around then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff, Iowa attorney Jeff Whitaker, who had...
With Election Safely Over, Kim Reynolds Criticizes Steve King
Ever since Kim Reynolds announced Steve King as one of her honorary campaign co-chairs in November 2017, she faced pressure to disavow his open...
Sessions Announces Feds Will Monitor Election in Immigrant-Heavy Part of Steve King’s District [Updated]
Update, 11/7: Although voting rights advocates continued to raise questions about the Justice Department's announcement, it doesn't appear that there were any irregularities at...
Kim Reynolds “Can’t Be Held Responsible” for Steve King, But She’s Ending Her Campaign...
Last Wednesday, with Congressman Steve King facing more local and national criticism than ever before over his embrace of white nationalist rhetoric and promotion...
Steve King’s Closing Argument: An Impassioned Defense of Austria’s Far Right
Amid a week of the most intense media scrutiny he’s ever faced, the air of inevitability about his re-election Tuesday dissipating in dramatic fashion...
Counting Down to the Election, a Daily Quote Highlighting Steve King’s Extreme Views
For most of his years as an Iowa congressman, Steve King was not someone to whom I paid much attention. That changed a few...
Timeline: Iowa’s Medicaid Privatization Fiasco
From the start, when then-Gov. Terry Branstad revealed his plan in 2015 to privatize the state’s Medicaid program, it should have been clear that...
Trump Talked to Matt Whitaker About Being Jeff Sessions’ Replacement
It looked likely last month that Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who has helped safeguard Robert Mueller's grand jury investigation into the Trump...
Grassley Says He Can’t Comment on Trump Mocking Ford Because He’d Already Gone to...
Chuck Grassley fielded questions from callers during a television appearance Wednesday and reportedly told Channel 13 News that he couldn't comment on President Trump's...
