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Rob Sand: Taking Iowa Beyond Red or Blue

1 week ago | couriernewsroom.com | Rob Sand

By Rob SandSomewhere along the way, Iowa, the state that I was raised in and love, ended up 49th in the country for economic growth, 48th in personal income growth, and somewhere in the middle for public education – but second in the country for people getting cancer. So, how did that all happen? Well, I’ll tell you.
Denny Carter: AOC Is The Ultimate ‘Bread And Butter’ Politician

3 weeks ago | couriernewsroom.com | Denny Carter

By Denny CarterIn my role as a football analyst, the primary feedback I’ve gotten from people both inside and outside the Football Analyst Complex is to get off my laptop, sit down, and watch the damn tape. It is the tape, after all, that holds the answers to all my questions. It is the tape that will disabuse me of the ludicrous opinions I have formed about certain teams or players or coaches by poring over spreadsheets and divining meaning from disparate numbers and metrics and rates.
Ivan Luevanos-Elms and Sarah Johnson: This Is What Authoritarian Intimidation Looks Like

3 weeks ago | couriernewsroom.com | SArah Johnson |Sarah Johnson |Ivan Luevanos-Elms

By Ivan Luevanos-Elms and Sarah JohnsonDuring the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said he would be an authoritarian on his first day in office. More than 100 days in, he has flexed his dictatorial muscles nonstop to coerce compliance with his ideological mission.
Why the GOP’s megabill isn’t a done deal yet

3 weeks ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesWith the Senate returning to Washington this evening after a weeklong Memorial Day recess, the chamber’s Republican majority is now on the clock to do what their House counterparts did before the break: Pass a sprawling tax, immigration, and energy package that delivers the bulk of President Trump’s legislative agenda. Senate Democrats are clear-eyed. They know they can’t block the GOP’s megabill outright.
The four letters that could sink the GOP’s megabill

1 month ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesMoments after the House Ways and Means Committee wrapped a 17-hour markup of its portion of the GOP megabill—legislation meant to enshrine President Trump’s second-term agenda—Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) posted a photo of then-candidate Trump waving from a McDonald’s drive-thru window. Presumably, it was a corny attempt to own the libs. But Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), one of Smith’s GOP colleagues, didn’t find it amusing.
The domino effect of cutting SNAP during a trade war

1 month ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesHouse Republicans will decide this week whether to make poor Americans more hungry by restricting access to food. As they prepare to mark up their portion of a GOP megabill to enact President Trump’s legislative agenda, proposed cuts to SNAP wouldn’t just hurt families by limiting their ability to use SNAP to purchase food—they’d ripple through the farm economy, triggering layoffs, shuttering small-town grocery stores, and destabilizing already vulnerable rural communities.
Robert Weiner: The Trump Administration is Set on Solving a Nonissue - and Millions Could Lose the Right to Vote

1 month ago | couriernewsroom.com | Robert Weiner

By Robert WeinerJust recently, a federal judge blocked portions of Donald Trump’s executive order meant to overhaul our nation’s voting system. The court was right to do so. The president’s order was nothing more than a reckless sham solution in search of a problem. Many aspects of voting in this country need reform—voter suppression laws, discrimination, and illegal purges of voting rolls, among others. Despite much fevered rhetoric, fraud and noncitizen voting are far down that list.
Why reconciliation bills are always a mess

1 month ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesThis week was supposed to be a big one for House Republicans. Three committees that are responsible for most of the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts were set to publicly debate and approve their portions of a megabill built around President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities.
Debbie Cox Bultan and Mari Manoogian: Building a New Democratic Movement

1 month ago | couriernewsroom.com | Debbie Cox Bultan |Mari Manoogian

By Debbie Cox Bultan and Mari ManoogianDemocrats across America are engaged in an existential conversation about our party’s future. The question isn’t simply how to win the next election—it’s how to rebuild a movement that addresses Americans’ kitchen table concerns while standing firm against authoritarian threats to our democracy. We’ve both been in the trenches. We know firsthand what it takes to win in competitive districts. We’ve seen what works and what doesn’t.
The phrase quietly reshaping Trump-era policy battles

2 months ago | couriernewsroom.com | Michael Jones

By Michael JonesHarvard University has spent centuries guarding its place at the pinnacle of American academia. But this spring, it found itself defending something even more fundamental: its right to think freely. In a sharp escalation of its war on perceived liberal bastions, the Trump administration threatened to strip Harvard of nearly $9 billion in federal funding unless it restructured its hiring practices to foster greater “viewpoint diversity”—a term officials framed as a call for balance.