The Internet is a marketplace of ideas and ideals. However, governments such as China's have no interest in free exchange of ideas that ...

I'm a big fan of TED Talks for this reason, the speakers, like Richard Wilkinson, explain problems is visual terms that make them easier...

Occupy Iowa supporters in Iowa City have taken up residency in College Green Park for the forseeable future to organize and protest against...

Does anybody see the twisted irony of Arab Spring turning into American Fall? I sincerely hope that, whatever measures that are taken to mak...

"War is good for the economy." For too many years we've accepted that this is true. And yet, clearly, in this moment, we have ...

On September 11, 2001, I walked to work. It was a cool, crisp Iowa morning. As I often did, I took a path through Hickory Hill Park, a local...

For a long time, I have been using this blog as a way to promote both progressive and populist visions. Like many progressives, I have been ...

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 ...