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How Iowa is stripping localities' ability to decide for themselves- and who that hurts
Home rule and local control used to be GOP's answer to 'Big Government.' Now, Republican governor and Legislature use them to Be Big Government & strip…
 • Rekha Basu
If these times bring out the worst in government, they’re bringing out the best in community
Local shows of support for migrants are an antidote to the harsh behavior of ICE
 • Rekha Basu
"Worst of the worst" or "Very fine person"?
Trump's choices of whom to pardon or persecute reveal a host of doublespeak and double standards
 • Rekha Basu
IA lawmaker's smart plan to lower property taxes and properly fund public schools: End vouchers
Vouchers to private schools have shorted once stellar public ones. Scrapping them would also enable continued funding for needed public services
 • Rekha Basu
Trump's illegal Venezuela moves echo his defiance of U.S. laws, protocols. What next?
Maduro may be a self-serving autocrat who trounced human rights, defied election outcomes and put his own agenda first. But couldn’t the same be said of…
 • Rekha Basu
Believe in the Power of We, and Push Back
A tribute to some Iowans who used the courts and the freedom of inforation for justice
 • Rekha Basu
Whatever's behind the Administration's vaccine opposition, it's leading us down a perilous path
Vaccine deniers in and out of government are spouting harmful - if at times humorous - conspiracy theories
 • Rekha Basu
Rekha shouts & whispers
Rekha shouts & whispers
This opinion column examines news, events and experiences through a humanitarian and social justice lens, names the culprits and applauds the defenders of truth, democracy and human rights.
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