Subterms
Iowa Abandoned by mainstream Republicans for his racist rhetoric, the Iowa congressman finds himself in a nightmare situation Representative Steve King, of Iowa, speaks during a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in August 2019. Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP This might actually be the year the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King loses re-election. King, the conservative […] More
Opinion Donald Trump Midwesterners were already doubting Trump. Covid could seal his political fate Art Cullen The genius may think we are suckers, but in Iowa we don’t ruin good corn liquor with Clorox An empty street in Perry, Iowa, home of a Tyson pork processing plant. Photograph: Jack Kurtz/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Drake Custer is a […] More
Eight US states have worked to try and halt abortions entirely during the pandemic as clinics report a rise in demand Pro-choice activists supporting legal access to abortion protest outside the supreme court in Washington DC on 4 March. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images A woman in Texas was isolating with her family. She […] More
The Good Liars duo on monument placed in Iowa statehouse: ‘King’s racism is part of our heritage and we need to respect that’ They’re calling it a tiny statue for a tiny man. Given Iowa congressman Steve King’s pitiful history of racist and xenophobic comments, it may not be small enough. The statue, placed in […] More
Troy Price says he is ‘deeply sorry for what happened’ at derailed event, as results remain unclear The chair of the Iowa Democratic party, who oversaw a chaotic caucus last week that still has not yielded final results, resigned from his position on Wednesday. Troy Price, who has been the head of the state’s Democratic […] More
Every leading Democratic candidate supports a form of conservation that can reduce greenhouse gases and create jobs in rural America Something you might have missed amid all the horserace and app-failure coverage of the Iowa caucuses: a deep discussion took place over the past year about the climate crisis and agriculture that could change the […] More
Senator, who trails Pete Buttigieg by just two delegates, plans to ask for tally to be checked Bernie Sanders’ campaign plans to ask for a “partial recanvass” of the results of last week’s Iowa caucuses. A campaign aide confirmed the plans on Sunday night, ahead of a Monday deadline for candidates to ask the Iowa […] More
Even the navy is not immune to turning nouns into ugly verbs As both my father and uncle served in the navy, I take an interest in goings-on in the Senior Service. The news never seems anything other than of cutbacks and delays in the deployment of new ships. Last week was no exception, with […] More
