On Friday, a team of researchers led by Stanford economist Raj Chetty released a paper on how growing up in poverty affects boys and girls differently. Their…
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So, What Have We Learned from the Iowa Caucuses? Leid Stories deconstructs the Iowa caucuses. The first voting event in the 2016 presidential election, it…
In Iowa, as across the nation, lots of people work during the early to middle evening, after the traditional dinner hour. Tow-truck drivers. Nurses’ aides.…
"Why don't candidates talk about food?" That's a question asked by the Des Moines Register's editorial board this weekend, who also pointed out that the "first-in-the nation caucuses…
Everything Trump has done during the campaign is designed to dupe the media into funding his marketing strategy SEAN ILLING Donald Trump’s presidential campaign feels…
Jeb and the Bush Crime Family & Hillary's Clinton foundation Guest 1: Roger Stone, a seasoned political operative and pundit. A veteran of eight national…
As Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton agree to hold four additional debates, the Sanders campaign is seeking to highlight something that sets it apart from…
Starting in Iowa: It’s Open Season, and Hapless Voters Are the Quarry All eyes are on Iowa, where voting in the 2016 presidential race gets…
With the first nomination contest only two days away, the corporate media reaction to Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly strong campaign, while not reaching Jeremy Corbyn-level hysteria, has…
January 30, 1976 is to plutocracy in the United States what July 4, 1776 was to its democracy. The fortieth anniversary of Buckley v Valeo, the…
War is hell. Unless, of course, you happen to be a global corporate peddler of rockets, drones, bombs, and all the other hellish weaponry of…
EVERYONE knows what Donald Trump thinks about the world. How he wants to build a wall to keep out the Mexicans, who he views largely…