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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Will Iowa Always Get to Go First?

Saahil Desai, Christian Paz, and Shan Wang

January 24, 2020

A Reckoning Over Iowa

Ronald Brownstein

January 24, 2020

The Iowa state flag hangs at a rally site at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. A person, in shadow and wearing a baseball cap, stands in front of it.

Cory Booker Runs Out of Time

Edward-Isaac Dovere

January 13, 2020

Iowans Vote First, If They Can Vote at All

October 7, 2019

The shadows of voters lined up outside a 2016 caucus location in West Des Moines, Iowa.

The Question Dividing Democratic Socialists

September 16, 2019

Iowa’s Most Famous Pollster Faces Her Toughest Test Yet

August 31, 2019

A voter drops a kernel of corn in a jar for the Iowa State Fair corn poll.

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The King and Iowa

August 14, 2019

How Steve King Could Turn Iowa Blue

August 5, 2019

J. D. Scholten, the House candidate in Iowa, appears in a black-and-white photo, in front of a red background. He is pointing his left hand.

Cory Booker’s One-State Plan

Edward-Isaac Dovere

June 21, 2019

The Democratic Clown Car Rolls Into Iowa

Edward-Isaac Dovere

June 10, 2019

I’m the Longest-Serving Republican in the Iowa Legislature, and I’m Switching Parties

May 12, 2019

Andy McKean, right, the longest-serving Republican in the Iowa legislature, announced that he's becoming a Democrat during a news conference on April 23, 2019.