Iowa only trails Arkansas in the number of farm bankruptcies filed so far this year, a stat attributed to plummeting international soybean sales thanks to Trump’s trade wars and tariffs.

Iowa Starting Line Podcast host Pat Rynard discusses the changing voter trends in the Iowa suburbs with Ankeny Area Democrats Chair Zaak Barnes and Representative-Elect Jennifer Konfrst, who flipped a ...

Competition, choice, and opportunity. Those are the main arguments from Republican lawmakers for the revival of a bill—Senate File 128—which would give Iowa parents and guardians money from the state ...

Soon, a progressive judicial group advocating for court reform will release a list of potential nominees for the Supreme Court that they hope the Democratic presidential candidates will consider. It ...

Ty Rushing is the former Chief Political Correspondent for Iowa Starting Line. He is a trail-blazing veteran Iowa journalist, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and co-founder and president of the Iowa ...

Enrique Rey was seven when he was told his mother had died. She lost her long battle against liver cancer and the world as he knew it changed forever. Enrique’s dad was an alcoholic and never took ...

Iowan Andrew Redlawsk didn’t think twice about picking up some shifts at Trump SoHo when a catering company he worked for was contracted to do a few random jobs at the hotel back in 2011. “At the time ...

Andrew Yang, a former candidate for president, introduced Iowans and the country to Universal Basic Income when he kicked off his campaign here to compete in the caucuses. Yang’s “Freedom Dividend,” a ...

A case in federal court has put pre-2015 rules for what waters qualify for protection under the Clean Water Act back into place. For now. Last week a federal judge in Arizona ruled that the Trump ...

Monday’s gubernatorial debate between Gov. Kim Reynolds and small business owner Deidre DeJear emphasized how differently they view the status of education in Iowa. Reynolds said the state is doing ...

Republicans have long preached that the best government is the one closest to the people. Based on this basic conservative principle, one might expect that they would promote the autonomy of local ...

DACA allows about 700,000 young adults, brought to the United States as children, to work, attend school and live legally in the United States, so long as their renewal application is approved every ...