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Paul Embery, a British trade union activist, Labour Party member, and author of “Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class,” provides a perspective from across the pond that includes lessons for American politics.

On Midwest Week, an update on the joint partnership between the Two Rivers YMCA and the Rock Island Library.

On Midwest Week, following the 2020 election, the Iowa legislature made some major changes in how we'll vote in the coming years.

A wrap up of this year's Iowa Legislative session.

This is Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley’s summation of the recently concluded legislative session. In this addition of Heartland Politics, he gives an overview of the sessions highlights and accomplishments, including the budget, tax cuts, school reform, law enforcement, child care and more.

Iowa Democratic House Leader Todd Prichard (D-Charles City) provides his take on the recently concluded legislative session and addresses school funding, election reform, the economy and more.

Illinois General Assembly budget and congressional maps

On Midwest Week, why Rock Island has given up on using the Rock River to generate power.

Author Edward-Isaac Dovere, lead political correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, talks about his book Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Trump including the “twists of fate” that led to Biden’s nomination, Obama’s inadvertent role in creating what followed, the continuing battle between progressive and moderate elements of the party, and much more.