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Sex Toys Penetrate Iowa Governor's Race; Federal Regulatory Filings Reveal Context to Controversy

The Hidden Side of Retail Work

Retired Valley High School Teachers Challenge the Values of Valley High School Grad Ashley Hinson

Trump's Coming for our Elections

Why Did the Iowa Legacy Media Drop the Ball on a Big Story?

How Zach Wahls' Iowa Senate Campaign is Deceiving Iowans

A Flagman on the Side of the Road

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin Endorses Josh Turek

Live with Robert Leonard and Tiffany Muller with End Citizens United

If Iowa Democrats Gamble on Zach Wahls Instead of Voting for Josh Turek — They Risk Losing It All

"Printmaking Change: An Artful Show of Unity"

Tears at a Restaurant in Storm Lake, Iowa

"Army survivors of deadly attack in Kuwait dispute Pentagon's account, say unit 'was unprepared' to defend itself"

"If It's Turek, That's Terrific!"

New Polling Shows Sand Leads Feenstra, and Turek has the Best Shot at Beating Hinson

Zach Wahls' Iowa Senate Campaign is Spinning Like a Top

Grassley, Ernst, Hinson, Nunn, Feenstra, and Miller-Meeks are complicit with Trump War Crimes in Iran

Honoring Iowa's Eternal Patriots

Live with Robert Leonard and Zachary Oren Smith on the Turek/Wahls event

The Sarah Trone Garriott and Elissa Slotkin Town Hall on Health Care

Wahls Campaign Responds to My Column and the Washington Examiner

Zach Wahls in the Crosshairs of the Washington Examiner

Rahm Emanuel is Running for President

No Kings! Des Moines

No Kings! Indianola, Iowa

Longing for the Death of MAGA

Mahaska County Supervisor Doubles Down on using Racial Slur

The People who Show Up

We Wait--the Haunting Space between Care and Scare

Iowa Republican Legislators are Committed to Hiding how Polluted our Water is

Want a Third/Half of Iowa Newspapers to Die?

"Let My People Go!"

My Take on the Iowa Democratic Senate Primary

"Immigrants are Welcome Here"

Eve Wasn't the First Sinner--She was the First Truth Seeker

Chaplains in Public Schools will result in Division, Exclusion, and Coercion.

Imagine Being the Exception to Someone’s Racism

Where’s the Line? On Laughter in our ICE Age

Art Cullen and Bob Leonard Discuss the Arrests of Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

More Iowans Protest Trump than Attend his Rally in Clive

Iowa Startups, Entrepreneurship, and more...

Feenstra says ICE Violence is "Incidental"

"I am an Iowa Farmer"

Portraits of Women after Prison---Marie's and Suzanne's Stories

Portraits of Women after Prison—Caitlin's Story