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Food
- Ways of Eating | Newsletter
- Sexual Harassment, Booze, and Barbecue: Inside Bruce Gerleman’s Restaurant Empire | Iowa Informer
- The Iowa Derecho Put Refugee Food Workers at Even Greater Risk | Civil Eats
- Iowa’s Oldest Chinese Restaurant Is Now The Weirdest Fusion Pizza Place You’ll Go To | BuzzFeed News
- How Decorah, Iowa, Became One of America’s Great Beer Towns | InsideHook
- A Tex-Mex tradition endures at Henry J's Taco House | DMR
- These are the oldest Des Moines restaurants still in operation | DMR
- From Casey's pizza to QuikTrip tea, these are Iowans' convenience-store favorites | DMR
- The 41 bygone Des Moines restaurants diners miss the most | DMR
- You can trace Iowa's taste for chili and cinnamon rolls back to elementary school lunch | DMR
- MillerCoors, Anheuser-Busch fight over farmers in aftermath of Bud Light's Super Bowl ad | DMR
- B&B Grocery is a Des Moines institution for a reason | DMR
- The Vanishing American Diner | Men's Journal
- Hotel Food Takes a Giant Leap Forward | Men's Journal
- The 10 Best Ways to Make a Hot Dog | Men's Journal
- 10 Splurge-Worthy State Fair Foods | Men's Journal
Books
- Shining and Whole: In Remembrance of Donald Hall | The Millions
- Time Is the Only Effective Salve: On Vi Khi Nao’s ‘Fish in Exile’ | The Millions
- Author Claire Vaye Watkins on Her Debut Novel, the Water Crisis, and Poop Jokes | VICE
- Padgett Powell Is American Letters' Oddest Elder Statesman | VICE
- Interview: Donald Hall, author of Essays After Eighty
- Monthly Book Round-Ups | AskMen.com
- Religion, Writing, and The Gospel According to Jam Bands | BuzzFeed
- Author Teju Cole Talks His New Essay On Immigration, Twitter, And Censorship | BuzzFeed
Trends, Culture, News
- Health Officials Face Death Threats From Coronavirus Deniers | The Intercept
- Living History Fiasco | Iowa Informer
- How a small town reacted when its mayor was caught growing weed | The Guardian
- Wells Fargo Call Center Workers in 4 States Test Positive for COVID-19 | VICE
- Wells Fargo Demands Call Center Workers Come to Office Despite Coronavirus | VICE
- ‘Iowa Nice’ Doesn’t Mean Much to Me | VICE
- Behind the Carson King story | Columbia Journalism Review
- The stories behind 19 odd Iowa town names | DMR
- Mysterious painting of a naked woman discovered in south-side Des Moines home | DMR
- How one Iowa man's mental health crisis ended with his arrest | DMR
- How George the pig, once headed to the slaughterhouse, landed at an Iowa animal sanctuary | DMR
- Why Do They Come To The Iowa State Fair? | Catapult
- Why does Des Moines, Iowa have worse affordable housing than Brooklyn? | The Guardian
- Echo and The Lonely Men: Can Amazon's Alexa Be Your Friend? | Digg
- 'RuneScape' Can't Escape 2007 | Digg.com
- This Comic Perfectly Explains What White Privilege Is | BuzzFeed
- Which “Friday Night Lights” Character Are You? | BuzzFeed
Basketball
Music
- In Iowa, As In Other Red States, Hopeful Democrats Fail to Make Gains | The Intercept
- Get Out the Vote Efforts in Farm Country Are Reaching Young, Latinx, and Rural Voters | Civil Eats
- A Desperate Trump Rallies in Iowa as He Cancels Ads, Loses Ground | The Intercept
- This Whole Primary Is Steered by a Tiny Percentage of an Incredibly White State | VICE
-Why do white people love Pete Buttigieg? | VICE
-Come on! Feel The Yangapalooza! | VICE
-White nationalist speaker provokes controversy at Iowa State University | DMR
Politics
- Des Moines Police Have It Out for Black Lives Matter. How Far Will They Go? | Iowa Informer
- How We Are Iowa’s Much-Anticipated Report on BLM Protester Viet Tran Fell Flat | Iowa Informer
- Son of DMPD Spox Parizek Endorses Black Lives Matter in Call for Father’s Dismissal | Iowa Informer
- Des Moines Police Start Riot at Iowa Capitol, Then Play the Victim | Iowa Informer
- Des Moines Police “Retaliate” with Arrest of Prominent Black Lives Matter Organizer | Iowa Informer
- Des Moines Gay Bar Raided Amid Black Lives Matter Protests As Pride Month Begins | Iowa Informer