Race and Politics   

By Steffen Schmidt

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Steffen Schmidt is a University Professor of political science at Iowa State University and lead author of the country's most widely adopted introductory college textbook, "American Government and Politics Today." He provides weekly political analysis for Iowa Public Radio, and periodically in Spanish for CNN en Español. He is chief political and foreign correspondent for InsiderIowa.com

Smile When You Say That    

By Dave Swenson 

We learned this week of a North Iowa Tea Party billboard in Mason City sporting a picture of Adolf Hitler and the heading “National Socialism” on one side, Vladimir Lenin with the title “Marxist Socialism” on the other side, and smack dab in the middle there was a picture of Barack Obama dubbed a “Democrat Socialist”(sic).  Read more...

Dave Swenson is a long-time analyst of Iowa political, social, and economic issues. He is a staff research economist at Iowa State University and an extension-to-communities economics educator. He also teaches community and regional planners (those nefarious agents of totalitarian control) how to do economic things in their profession.

Is the United States too huge and diverse for a federal government as strong as the one we have?   

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen

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D. Arnie Arnesen is a radio and TV commentator based in New Hampshire. She has lectured at Harvard, Dartmouth, UNH, SNHU, Vermont Law School, St. Olaf, and other colleges. She is a former NH Legislator and a former democratic nominee for Governor and Congress. Arnie has been a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard and has trainied women who want to run for office throughout the United States and future NH Leaders. You can hear Arnie every Wednesday on Talk of Iowa on IowaPublicRadio.org and every Friday on the Dan Mitchell Show on WKBKam.com.