The loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a double blow. It will be felt as a personal loss by millions of Americans, and it will stress America’s po…
Five weeks ago new Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren wrote that the conference’s postponed football season wouldn’t be “revisited.” Now Iowa w…
With President Donald Trump in a fierce re-election battle with Democrat Joe Biden, the administration has used incumbency to announce groundb…
Senate Democrats have blocked the Republicans’ long-delayed plan for additional coronavirus aid, raising the prospect that Congress will provi…
This originally appeared in the Sept. 10 Des Moines Register.
The Guardian, based in England, had a unique guest opinion last week written by GPT-3, a new artificial intelligence language generator that a…
A version of this editorial first appeared in the Quad-City Times.
White House coronavirus experts reported Aug. 30 that the state jumped from No. 9 a week earlier to lead the nation in most coronavirus cases …
A version of this editorial originally appeared in the Quad-City Times.
The Republican National Convention — four nights of Trump family and friends — highlighted the differences between the president and Democrats…
Swiss psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach wrote “Psychodiagnostik” in 1921, examining individuals’ different interpretations of various inkblots.
This editorial was authored by Lee Newspapers and The Courier.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, has been tabbed the first African-American and Asian-American woman to run for vice president by presumptive…
The Big Ten and Pac-12 became the first Power 5 conferences — those eligible for the college football national championship — to cancel fall p…
Iowa no longer carries the stigma of being the only state not allowing those convicted of a felony to vote — unless getting written dispensati…
Gov. Kim Reynolds said U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams influenced her decision to set guidelines for resuming in-person classroom education.
The Kansas City law firm of Husch Blackwell on Thursday delivered its long-awaited report on the treatment and retention of Black players in t…
Iowa farmers can’t seem to catch a break.
Waterloo native Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her overview of the “1619 Project” that sh…
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Gov. Reynolds has a cart-before-horse problem. First: Order masks to reduce virus spread. Then open schools.
The Iowa Legislative Council finally made the right decision.
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Rep. John Lewis and the Rev. C.T. Vivian were lieutenants of the Rev. Martin Luther King.
The recent U.S. Supreme Court session gladdened and frustrated liberals and conservatives.
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