As has been widely reported, Arizona Senator John Kyl was caught in a bald-faced lie about the amount of funding that goes toward abortion s...

Wisconsin killed collective bargaining, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio are lined up to try to do the same. Michigan is asserting state rights over ...

While parts of the world seem hell-bent on democratizing themselves, here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we are marching...

Iowa City Council member Michael Wright is not seeking to run for re-election when he completes his term which ends in January 2012. Citing ...

In case you are interested in what I do with my spare time, here is an example. Yale Cohn is a local media guy who has a talk show on the hi...

Iowa has a real problem and it is not same-sex couples with marriage licenses. Iowa's problem is that it has a legislature that is willi...

Happy Belated New Year. After 4 years and a month of commenting on politics, progressive and otherwise, I am continuing my last year trend o...

I, like a lot of other people were captivated by the Don't Ask/Don't Tell debate that raged in Congress for most of the lame duck se...

In 2008, while my wife was falling in love with Barack Obama and what she thought he represented, I was thinking about campaigning for John ...

Who is responsible for job creation? According to the voters a couple of weeks back, the Republican Party, as they seated quite a few of the...

When Congress returns to Washington in the lameduck session, it is expected that the Democrat Senate majority will to try to push through th...

As expected, it was a good night to be a Republican candidate for state office, an incumbent running for re-election for Congress from Iowa,...

Prognostication is subject to a lot of skepticism, and rightly so, particularly if there are based on mostly conjecture and a little bit of ...

While watching Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," I was struck by attention paid to the idea that many people are fed up...

If turnout at the local HyVee grocery store is any indicator, turnout for the mid-term election is going to be much higher than anticipated....

Several years ago I ran for the city council in Iowa City. At the time I did not support invoking a 21-only ordinance for being in a bar aft...

In July I got an email from the Democratic Party to complete a survey. They ask if I was a Democrat. I honestly had to reread the Iowa 2010 ...

Time magazine mentions Jeanette Pickering Rankin as a top ten political prodigy. My public school education failed to fill me in on the ama...

Attention all foreigners. You may not have been aware, but both major US political parties in our country are now blaming you for everything...

As some of you may have noted, the Popular Progressive blog has been quiet in the last few months. This was wholly unintentional, but it is ...