As Iowans we are privileged in so many ways – with our land, our people and our history, but we should be willing to show some humility in recognizing how these privileges came to be. How different would life be today if freedmen and women had been allowed to take their rightful place as land owning, independent farm families – like so many of our ancestors here in Iowa?
July 14, 2017How the state’s unique and open relationship with Mexico is overshadowing Trump’s immigration policies.
July 5, 2017Dispatches from the Urban Resistance, from Atlantic City to Miami Beach.
May 31, 2017This activist is working to "change the face of the pale, male, stale leadership" in the US government.
May 23, 2017The Department of Justice is perverting a rule to shut down immigrants-rights lawyers.
March 20, 2017Many immigrants are secluding themselves in fear of deportation.
February 13, 2017They — and the communities into which they’re placed — thrive.
February 8, 2017People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into actions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable community members.
January 28, 2017In which our columnist rewrites that famous poem by Emma Lazarus at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
August 26, 2014Call it irony or call it a nightmare, but the “crisis” of Central American children crossing the US-Mexican border is now fading from the news.
