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Tenure protects academic freedom, but faculty aren’t guaranteed a job

Tenure protects academic freedom, but faculty aren’t guaranteed a job

Sarah Watson, Executive Editor • March 14, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Julia Shanahan  If your...

Yes, majority of Iowans and Americans support background checks

Yes, majority of Iowans and Americans support background checks

Mary Hartel, News Reporter • March 12, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your...

Ashley Hinson’s border wall criticism hits mark but blanket amnesty jab misses

Ashley Hinson’s border wall criticism hits mark but blanket amnesty jab misses

Natalie Dunlap • February 17, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your...

School choice law may give tax dollars to corporations

School choice law may give tax dollars to corporations

Seth Taylor, PolitiFact Reporter • February 4, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your time...

Reasons exist for escalating insulin prices and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley nails them

Reasons exist for escalating insulin prices and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley nails them

Madison Black, Politifact Reporter • January 31, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Sarah Watson and Lyle Muller More than...

Bans on animal ag and gas-powered cars not likely in Biden Administration

Bans on animal ag and gas-powered cars not likely in Biden Administration

Julia Shanahan, Politics Editor • January 18, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your...

The facts behind Gov. Reynolds’ Condition of the State Address

The facts behind Gov. Reynolds’ Condition of the State Address

Sarah Watson, Natalie Dunlap, Brian Grace, and Lyle Muller • January 12, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: Iowa entered 2021 amid...

Pre-pandemic Iowa had largest workforce in state history

Pre-pandemic Iowa had largest workforce in state history

Sarah Watson, Executive Editor • January 11, 2021

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Rylee Wilson If your...

Senator Mariannette Miller-Meeks (left) speaks with a member of UISG during the Hawkeye Caucus at the State Capitol in Des Moines on April 9, 2019. Iowa State Senator Rita Hart (right) speaks with supporters during her meet and greet at Yotopia on June 30, 2019.

Breaking down Iowa’s 6-vote 2nd District U.S. House appeal

Mary Hartel, News Reporter • December 18, 2020

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson A 6-vote...

Fred Hubbell donated big to Iowa’s Democratic legislative candidates, but Mike Bloomberg didn’t

Fred Hubbell donated big to Iowa’s Democratic legislative candidates, but Mike Bloomberg didn’t

Seth Taylor, Politifact reporter • December 16, 2020

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your...

Yes, President Trump’s claims of fraud go back to Iowa’s 2016 caucuses

Yes, President Trump’s claims of fraud go back to Iowa’s 2016 caucuses

Eleanor Hildebrandt, News Reporter • November 20, 2020

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson If your time...

How accessible are COVID-19 tests in Iowa?

How accessible are COVID-19 tests in Iowa?

Brooklyn Draisey, Projects Editor • November 18, 2020

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Edited by Sarah Watson and Lyle Muller If your time...

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