David Carroll Cochran is Professor of Politics at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. His most recent books are Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War (Orbis) and The Catholic Church in Ireland Today (Rowman & Littlefield).
Largely white and rural, the state has moved right over the past decade. Yet its response to the pandemic may lead to more competitive races this November.
The story of a group of intellectually disabled men contracted for low-wage work in a turkey-processing plant gets the full telling it deserves in Dan Barry’s book.