I have been a proud Bernie Sanders supporter since 2008 when I first heard him make the case that the Billionaire class had to be stopped. ...

The article said: "Have you remembered the soldiers who gave all?" And I had to think about that. Had I? Then I remembered ...

I was a mediocre runner back in the day, but even I understood the importance of running full-tilt to the end. Things happen, people dr...

In 2013, I discontinued writing this blog. Then I learned that someone "spammed" the blog and people were not able to read my old...

There is an important City Election around the corner and, for some, it is already "over"--they've early voted. But for the re...

Like many of you, when I heard about the explosions in Boston, it frightened me. And that is what terrorism does, it frightens and begs expl...

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 ...