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Trump’s tell: Insults fly when the facts hit home
CNN and The New York Times must have hit a nerve this week when they reported that a preliminary assessment from the U.S.
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Social media meltdown costs another journalist his job
And makes every other journalist's job harder
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Beware Trump’s Reichstag Moment
When Leaders Exploit Chaos: A Warning from 1933
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We’re all going to die? Senator Ernst and the arrogance of power
Leave sarcasm to the pros
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May 2025

Too trusting, too late. How reporters failed the country on Biden
Why didn’t we know?
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Caitlin Clark’s hometown paper still doesn’t get it
Iowans are hooked on the Fever
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Des Moines exhales: legislature leaves, sanity returns
A few bills brought progress – most brought embarrassment
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Want to beat the Republicans? Then make Rob Sand sweat first
No primary, no practice
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April 2025

The day 60 Minutes stopped ticking
From Cronkite to capitulation
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From prison to podium: Iowa GOP welcomes Capitol rioter as guest speaker
The party of law and order?
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The worst hundred days
It’s a journalism tradition to review a new presidential administration and analyze what’s been accomplished in the first hundred days.
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Journalists Aren't Capturing the True Fury of Trump Protesters
Anger in the streets is not getting through
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