In 2008, the Des Moines Register endorsed then Senator Barack Obama for president over Senator John McCain. For largely inexplicable reasons, this year the
Category: Government
America’s budget problem is a revenue problem
Contrary to warnings by politicians of both parties and by almost all of the mainstream press, America’s biggest fiscal problem is not spending on
Who are these undecided voters?
There are Democrats who feel that Barack Obama is not progressive enough. There are Republicans or Tea Party members who feel that Mitt Romney
Psst! Wanna see what your ballot will look like this year?
Everyone knows there is an election coming up. (It’s on November 6, 2012.) Not everyone knows that you can see your ballot in advance.
Lincoln [Nebraska] Journal Star endorses Obama for re-election
Obama has been tested and found equal to the task of being president. We think the country is in better shape than it was
How many kids are in pre-K and kindergarten in the U.S.?
In an era when there’s a database for just about everything, you’d have a hard time finding one that tallies up the total number
Chemical cuisine: What’s in your gullet?
You know something’s wrong when you walk down the aisles in your local supermarket, and you no longer see the food on the shelves
Clinton remembers poor as well as middle class
The official poverty rate for the United States in 2010 was 15.1 percent. There were 46.2 million individuals who were poor, defined as a
Why you should consider waking up at 4 am on Nov. 6
There’s still time to join the tens of thousands of civic-minded Americans who’ll be setting their alarms for 4 am on Election Day. Why
Study debunks Romney myth of makers and takers
Political scientists Suzanne Mettler and John Sides provide the numbers that debunk the Romney view that 53% of the population are hardworking, independent, and