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Nov 13, 2024 | 
niemanreports.org | Stephen G. Bloom
“The Brazil Chronicles” (forthcoming from University of Missouri Press on Nov. 18, 2024) is a mix of memoir and reportage by Stephen G. Bloom, which recounts Rio de Janeiro’s vibrant history as a base for American expat reporters.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
niemanreports.org | Greta Gómez Rico |Megan Cattel |Stephen G. Bloom |Larry Tye
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
niemanreports.org | Stephen G. Bloom
“The Brazil Chronicles” (forthcoming from University of Missouri Press on Nov. 18, 2024) is a mix of memoir and reportage by Stephen G. Bloom, which recounts Rio de Janeiro’s vibrant history as a base for American expat reporters.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
salon.com | Stephen G. Bloom
It was one of those foggy, yet shimmering evenings that makes San Francisco the city it is. My wife and I met our oldest friends at a way-too-hip restaurant on lower Divisadero Street, near where we all used to live. It was a very San Francisco place, having been in a previous life a laundromat and Bank of Italy branch. We toasted to our friendship of three decades. Clinks all around. Friends since our now-grown children had been infants. More people jammed into the restaurant.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Ed Tibbetts |Dave Leshtz |Stephen G. Bloom
While running for state treasurer, Republican State Senator Roby Smith touted his attendance record, noting in digital and television advertising that he “never missed a vote” during his twelve years in the legislature. But since being sworn in as state treasurer in January 2023, it’s not clear whether Smith has regularly worked at the state capitol.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Dave Leshtz |Stephen G. Bloom |Rick Morain |Nick Covington
Dual readings in Tama remind us: Iowa's state capitol is not a church Friday, Sep 20 2024 0 Comments Dave Leshtz is the editor of The Prairie Progressive. The mind is its own place, and in itselfCan make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. –John Milton, Paradise LostIt was a beautiful day for a drive, with big clouds billowing in a vast Iowa sky. My destination was the town of Toledo, where an “Iowa 99 County Bible Reading Marathon” was taking place on September 16.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Stephen G. Bloom |Rick Morain |Nick Covington |Laura Belin
Stephen G. Bloom is a professor of journalism at the University of Iowa. He is the author of seven nonfiction books, the latest of which is The Brazil Chronicles, due out in November. For anyone who grew up in Iowa during the 1940s or ’50s, or was a student at the University of Iowa in the 1960s, the name Bobby Washington will ring a bell. Bobby was the Caitlin Clark of his generation. Just like Caitlin, if you mentioned just the name Bobby, everyone knew who you were talking about.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
innerself.com | Stephen G. Bloom |James Clear |Charles Duhigg |BJ Fogg
Charlotte ButtonWhat was the Blue-Eyes Brown-Eyes experiment? Why did Jane Elliott create this experiment? How did the experiment impact students and participants? What criticisms did the experiment face? How is the experiment viewed in modern educational contexts? A Second Look at the Blue-Eyes Brown-Eyes Experimentby Stephen G. Bloom, University of Iowa.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
bleedingheartland.com | Laura Belin |Dave Leshtz |Stephen G. Bloom |Rick Morain
Republican Party of Iowa state chair Jeff Kaufmann is tired of talking to party activists who aren’t ready to commit to supporting Donald Trump in November. In an animated speech to the Jones County Republicans on April 25, Kaufmann repeatedly reminded his audience that they “picked a team” and now need to get on board with the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
