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'Very ignorant people' cheerleading demise of family farms in Trump-supporting reaches of rural America
Fox News' Gutfeld, his national panelists, mock small-town Iowa House candidate's weight, calling him 'Benjamin Broken Buttons' amid a…
 • Douglas Burns
10 takeaways from Trump's 'America 250' speech in Des Moines on Fourth Of July eve
 • Douglas Burns
With alarm-clock urgency and breathtaking clarity, Art Cullen's new book tells us the rent is due for Iowa, the nation, and democracy itself
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Donald Trump’s desecrating insult of Rob Reiner is no match to message of grace in one of actor’s greatest moments, a healing 1976 Christmas…
 • Douglas Burns
Shot by police in a park, homeless immigrant in Denison died wearing a friend's clothes
 • Douglas Burns
Affordability, cross-state competitiveness central in Carter Lake candidate's Statehouse run
Eric Armstrong often jogs from his Iowa home to neighboring Omaha, Nebraska.
 • Douglas Burns
True to his blunt brand Nathan Sage hammers ‘artificial, fake’ Zach Wahls in endorsing Josh Turek for U.S. Senate
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Obama Presidential Center should establish Iowa satellite branch, celebrating caucuses, boosting rural American life
The brilliance of the Chicago plan considered, the Obama Foundation should construct an annex, an adjunct center, a satellite location, if you will…
 • Douglas Burns
Bad news on the Bears: Iowa Republican senators’ pie-skying for steal of Chicago’s NFL team won’t obscure real rural neglect in Hawkeye…
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy built an industry with one of the best joke set-ups since “Knock, knock — who’s there?”
 • Douglas Burns
Nik and Doug’s America: 'No Other Choice,' Super Bowl and Silicon Valley film screening
A recording from Douglas Burns's live video
 • Douglas Burns and Nik Heftman
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Classroom Clinic wants to take virtual mental health service business model statewide, beyond
By Mike Mendenhall
Tragedy in Minneapolis, Congress ‘abdicating its responsibility’ on tariffs, and more with Iowa congressional candidate Dave Dawson
By Mike Mendenhall
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Fourth-generation Iowa journalist dives deep with unpredictable, well-reported writing on rural America's people, politics and culture.
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