Stories

Everyone knows that social conservatives will come out in droves on the night of the Iowa caucuses. But a growing group of overlooked foot soldiers in this movement will also shape its outcome without even casting a vote. They can’t—they’re teenagers. But they are being trained to wage the political battles of the future for [...]

In many ways, the members of NICHE would probably just want to be left alone. But they’ve discovered that closing themselves off from the world is not likely to have the effects they might hope for.
NICHE is the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators, which acts as a clearinghouse for all things Christian home-school-related. The members, [...]

Move over Baby Boomers. Step aside Generation X. The rise of the Millennials is upon us. And Mike Connery is covering their emergence on his blog,FutureMajority.com.
Neither the generation’s age bracket nor nickname is agreed upon universally (Connery said he generally considered Millennials to be born from 1978 to 1996; the media often refers to this [...]

School’s out for the summer. You’re young and someone can get their hands on a bus; it’s time for a road trip. But for one group, this journey promises to be quite different, as does the bus.
Tomorrow, 13 young Americans will begin a two-month trip across the country promoting youth engagement in public service and the [...]

Annie Beaman, a 23-year-old native of Madison County, Iowa, had not been very invested in politics before the 2008 race for the presidency. She had voted dutifully each November but not out of any real love for the candidates running. “I never felt excited about a candidate’s potential. I’ve always focused on whether they [...]

The Secretaries of State of Idaho and Maine (Ben Ysursa and Matthew Dunlap, respectively) praised Iowa for instituting Election Day registration in a recent editorial:
Last month, Gov. Chet Culver of Iowa signed a bill authorizing Election Day registration, which allows previously unregistered voters with proper ID the opportunity to cast a ballot that day. This [...]

One of the biggest challenges facing the next generation of Iowans might just be sticking around. That’s because the mass exodus of educated young people in search of better jobs or lives, popularly called the "brain drain," has been in full force. Almost 30,000 people between the ages of 25 and 34 left Iowa from [...]