Charge Dropped for Independent Journalist Arrested in Mississippi Stand #NoDAPL Protest
A video journalist for the independent media outlet Unicorn Riot who was arrested for trespassing Oct. 12 during a Lee County protest against the...
Report: Lawmaker Lied About Business Degree from Steakhouse Franchise
The Republican lawmaker who recently filed a bill to require that Iowa's state universities hire more registered Republicans to balance out the number of...
Why the DNC Chair Race Matters
By almost all accounts, both Tom Perez and Keith Ellison are strong progressives with a commitment to organizing. Sure, Ellison defended Louis Farrakhan back...
Rastetter’s Scandal-Riddled Tenure on Board of Regents Draws to a Close
Bruce Rastetter, the Iowa ag baron and Donald Trump campaign adviser, has said he won't seek reappointment to the Iowa Board of Regents, according...
To My Republican Legislators and Friends
Burton Hable is an assistant director of bands and director of jazz studies at Ankeny Centennial High School concerned about the proposal from GOP...
AG Miller Joins 15-State Brief Opposing Trump’s Muslim Ban
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, announced on his office's website Monday that he has joined attorneys general from 14 other states and...
Draft of Pate Voter ID Bill Finally Emerges
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate for weeks has been spinning his proposal for a voter ID law in Iowa as part of a...
Rastetter Won’t Say If He Supports Trump’s Muslim Ban
Since President Trump signed his arbitrary and wide-reaching executive order Friday to ban citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,...
Podcast: Ground Floor Episode 1 – Hashtag Economic Development
Ground Floor is a new podcast about Iowa politics from the left featuring Ross Grooters, co-chair of Railroad Workers United and the legislative representative...
The Trumpstad Report: #MuslimBan [Updated]
Part of a series on the ties that bind Iowa’s governor and the president.
Update, 1/30: According to the Des Moines Register, Branstad's support for...
