Ben Kieffer

After stepping down as anchor of the PBS Newshour, Judy Woodruff has been traveling the country to better understand what divides Americans in her latest reporting project, America at a Crossroads.

Ways To Subscribe In this episode, we listen to some of our favorite interviews of the year.

Political analysts discuss Trump cabinet nominees, immigration reform and more.

In this episode we explore how our understanding of eclipses and witches have evolved from centuries ago.

Ways To Subscribe On this Newsbuzz episode, we look back at the life of Jim Leach, who passed away on Dec. 11

Questions involving carbon pipelines, ghost guns, and vaping regulation were put before the Iowa Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court.

Ways To Subscribe President-elect Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and Ann Selzer for the poll released days before the election that showed Vice President Kamala Harris ahead in the state.

Instead of regulating fertilizer, Iowa backs a voluntary program that has little impact at reducing nitrate runoff.

Washburn has been dean of the law school since 2018. He says the Legislature has had a chilling effect on higher education.

Long-time Des Moines resident Dr. Ahmad Yasser Al-Shash recalled the warning signs of authoritarianism as Hafez al-Assad rose to power shortly before Al-Shash immigrated to the U.S.