A fierce, powerful Democrat who fell short in his three bids for governor, Bellotti nevertheless wielded broad influence in ...

Christmas brings up a lot of emotions for me and so does Globe Santa, which was my family’s lifeline back to normalcy. It ...

I’m not sure how many there were, but I can recall at least five or six. The word for a female dog was technically five ...

Jim Leach, who represented eastern Iowa in Congress for 30 years and later went on to lead the National Endowment for the ...

There's a long history of presidents claiming that their win means the will of the people is behind their agendas. But ...

Former Governor of Massachusetts, Bill Weld, left and former U.S. Rep. from Iowa Jim Leach, appeared together as Weld ...

Biden made history by commuting 1,500 sentences but still faces calls to clear federal death row and issue blanket pardons ...

If Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. gets confirmed, the Bureau could be politicized in ways that even its notorious first director would have rejected.

Leach served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 2007, a tenure rivaled only by two others in Iowa history.

He later became a University of Iowa chair in public affairs and a visiting professor in the College of Law and Department of ...

The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, ...