Ames Progressive

The following is the complete transcript of the Ames Progressive’s interview with Connecticut Senator and former presidential candidate Chris Dodd from when he visited Iowa State University on a campaign stop November 27 of last year. The majority of this transcript was featured in the December 2007 article “Why Won’t You Let Me Say What […]

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The following is the full transcript of the Progressive’s interview with Ned Lamont. An abbreviated version appeared in the print version of Issue 2.3 as “A Quickie with Ned Lamont.”
Ned Lamont is the Connecticut businessman who challenged incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary of the 2006 midterm elections. Lamont, propelled by his progressive […]

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Christopher Hitchens is a British-born author and journalist now residing in Washington, D.C., where he became a naturalized citizen on his 58th birthday on April 13 of this year. A former Trotskyist, Hitchens broke with the left as he grew increasingly concerned with the threat of Islamic terrorism and disenchanted with what he called the […]

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The now-closed Boheme, on the corner of West Street and Campus Avenue in Ames. (photo: Kim Smith)
Kate Kennedy: Is there any way to save the Boheme?
Pete Sherman: Well, the business and the philosophy are two different things. What you’re doing is the Boheme. So there’s the business of the Boheme, but […]

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Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul is a libertarian and member the House of Representatives from Texas. Known for frequently invoking the names of the nation’s founding fathers in his appeals for a limited and Constitutional federal government, Paul has been dubbed “Dr. No” for his refusal to vote for any legislation he considers to be […]

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Nick Lindsley, senior in Architecture at Iowa State University, sent Noam Chomsky an e-mail asking for a short interview. Chomsky replied and said that he was too busy at that time, but he encouraged Nick to write back to him in a year. Lindsley did just that; he waited a year to the day and […]

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This is a continuation of Nick Lindsley’s exclusive interview of Bill Ayers. The beginning of this interview was published in Issue 2; the second part was in issue 3.
As a reminder, Bill Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, a radical leftist organization active in the ’60s. Today Ayers is a Professor at the […]

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The following is a continuation of Nick Lindsley’s interview with ex-Weather Underground member Bill Ayers. The first installment was published in issue 2, and the conclusion in issue 6.
Nick Lindsley: You were involved in the Weather Underground in the 70’s. You have expressed regret as well as defense about your actions while in the group. […]

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Denise O’Brien is an organic farmer and progressive political activist from Atlantic, Iowa. In 1997, she co-founded the Women, Food and Agriculture Network, an organization dedicated to providing women a an outlet to build food systems and communities with a focus on sustainability and environmentalism. She spoke before the UN General Assembly on behalf of […]

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This is the first installment of Nick Lindsley’s three-part interview with Bill Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, a radical leftist organization active in the ’60s. Today Ayers is a Professor at the University of Illinois. Read the second installment here and the third here.
Nick Lindsley: On your website, you wrote a blog […]

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