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U.S President Donald Trump speaks about tax cuts for American workers in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Prall: Tax cuts not working for America

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
May 3, 2018
Former United Nations ambassador John Bolton arrives for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York in December 2016. (Abaca Press/TNS)

Prall: Bolton a disaster for diplomacy, level-headedness

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
March 29, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks at an event titled "Generation Next: A White House Forum" in the South Court Auditorium on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Prall: Trump’s drug control ideas dated, ineffective

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
March 22, 2018
President-Elect Donald Trump thanks fans while making his entrance during an event for Trump and Vice President-Elect Mike Pence in Des Moines on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Prall: Trump Leading US Into Trade War

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
March 8, 2018
From the roof of the Iowa Historical Museum in Des Moines, the state capitol seems to hover above Des Moines East Village. (Robert Cross/Chicago Tribune/MCT)

Prall: Investing in water quality and cutting higher education

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
February 1, 2018
Dr. Traci Acklin, a pediatrician in Montgomery, W.V., peers into Connor Prather's ear. The one-year-old boy, who has Medicaid coverage, has had persistent ear infections, which will require surgery. (Noam N. Levey/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Prall: Medicaid is privatized and problematic

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
January 22, 2018
Donald Trump gives a speech during the Freedom Summit in the Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015. During he speech, Trump said he was concidering running for office. (File photo/The Daily Iowan)

Prall: Trump administration devalues State Department

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
December 15, 2017
Part of the DEA training curriculum on Clandestine Laboratories in this mock meth lab in Quantico, Virginia February 12, 2007. Over the past 20 years, more than 12,000 mostly state and local law enforcement officers have taken the week-long DEA course on raiding and securing a meth lab. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)

Prall: Meth breaking back in Iowa

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
December 8, 2017
French President Emmanuel Macron, second right, and his wife Brigitte Macron, right,walk with U.S President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump after the Bastille Day military parade on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris Friday, July 14, 2017. France's annual Bastille Day parade turned into an event high on American patriotism this year, marked by a warm embrace between President Donald Trump and his French counterpart. (Christophe Archambault, Pool via AP)

Prall: Did France teach Trump a lesson?

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
July 17, 2017
Ben Carson supporters sit at a booth Saturday October 31st, 2015 at the Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines. Dr. Carson was not in attendance. (The Daily Iowan/Kyle Close)

Ben Carson’s “inaccuracies”

Jacob Prall, [email protected]
November 12, 2015

Prall: The need for bullet trains in the U.S.

JACOB PRALL
May 14, 2015

Prall: Ben Carson, a delusional bigot

JACOB PRALL
May 7, 2015

Prall: No sense in the death penalty

JACOB PRALL
May 1, 2015

Prall: Regulate e-cigs for teens, not college students

JACOB PRALL
April 21, 2015

Prall: A bleak future for the economically liberal

JACOB PRALL
April 16, 2015

Prall: Weeding out racism in law enforcement

JACOB PRALL
April 8, 2015

Prall: Reid’s retirement may signal generational shift

JACOB PRALL
April 2, 2015

Prall: Riding The Cruz

JACOB PRALL
March 27, 2015

Prall: A salute to TAs

JACOB PRALL
March 12, 2015

Prall: The trouble with for-profit colleges

JACOB PRALL
March 4, 2015

Prall: The return of floods

JACOB PRALL
February 26, 2015

Prall: Here comes the megadrought

JACOB PRALL
February 19, 2015

Prall: Support net neutrality, support equality

JACOB PRALL
February 11, 2015

Prall: Cut the loopholes, fill the potholes

JACOB PRALL
February 3, 2015

Prall: Guns and cars race for #1 killer

JACOB PRALL
January 28, 2015

Prall: Is Ernst the new Palin?

JACOB PRALL
January 20, 2015

Prall: Council’s cottage decision disappointing

JACOB PRALL
December 16, 2014

Prall: Protect the parks

JACOB PRALL
December 12, 2014

Prall: Institutional racism still pervades our society

JACOB PRALL
December 4, 2014

Prall: Vigilantism in the internet age

JACOB PRALL
November 21, 2014

Prall: The dirt on dirtboxes

JACOB PRALL
November 19, 2014

Prall: Web in the fast lane

JACOB PRALL
November 13, 2014

Prall: Time to update elections

JACOB PRALL
November 6, 2014

Prall: Sockpuppet media and women voters

JACOB PRALL
October 30, 2014

Prall: Thank God we’re not in Kansas anymore

JACOB PRALL
October 24, 2014

Prall: A Marshall Plan for the Middle East

JACOB PRALL
October 22, 2014

Prall: Uprooting the sexual assault culture

JACOB PRALL
October 16, 2014

Prall: Targeted, alienated, then radicalized

JACOB PRALL
October 10, 2014

Prall: Supreme Court’s October Surprises

JACOB PRALL
October 7, 2014

Prall: Authors strike back

JACOB PRALL
October 2, 2014

Prall: Church and state

JACOB PRALL
September 29, 2014

Prall: Branstad’s education plan is near-sighted

JACOB PRALL
September 24, 2014

Prall: From Mao to now

JACOB PRALL
September 17, 2014

Prall: Energy, economy, and the environment

JACOB PRALL
September 10, 2014

Prall: Down on the corner, food trucks in the street

JACOB PRALL
September 5, 2014

Prall: Russia’s next victim: its citizenry

JACOB PRALL
September 2, 2014

Prall: Branstad’s education plan is a farce

JACOB PRALL
August 27, 2014
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