I have been actually dreading going to the polls and voting. The weight that I feel as a swing state voter is a burden. But no one wants to ...

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson argued last night at the Free and Equal debate held in Chicago for supporting a third party...

By day, I spend my time helping college students to plan for and execute their career plans. It is a job that I am impassioned to do and ye...

We are thirty days away from the 2012 Presidential election and here in Iowa voters are already casting their votes. Since September 28th, e...

Dear Governor Branstad, Let me first mention that I did not vote for you, but I did not vote for Chet Culver either. I generally didn...

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...