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Art Cullen

Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times in Iowa and won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. Cullen is the author of the book, Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper, which will be published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, on Oct. 2.


May 2021

  • Cows stand in a pen at the Vaughn Farms cattle operation, near Maxwell, Iowa.

    The right’s new bogeyman: that Biden will take America’s hamburgers away

    Art Cullen
    The real threat to our way of life – and Saturday night steak – is an oligopoly food system that teetered close to collapse last spring

January 2021

  • Donald Trump<br>President Donald Trump, returning from a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after stepping off the Marine One helicopter, early Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    During this miserable lame-duck period, we must trust in a better future

    Art Cullen
    Control of the Senate hangs in the balance, and our economy and constitutional order teeter. But I have hope

November 2020

  • Trump pardons Michael Flynn<br>epa08842389 (FILE) - Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lieutenant General Michael Flynn appears before the US House Intelligence Committee hearing on ‘Worldwide Threats’, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, USA, 04 February 2014 (Reissued 25 November 2020). US President Donald J. Trump tweeted on 25 November that he has given a full pardon to his former national security adviser, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS *** Local Caption *** 51210313

    US politics live
    Donald Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn – as it happened

  • ‘People came out and stood in line for hours, if necessary, to make sure their vote counted.’

    Here's something to give thanks for this Thanksgiving: our democracy survived

    Art Cullen
  • FILE PHOTO: Joe Biden campaigns in Iowa<br>FILE PHOTO: Joe Biden points a finger as he speaks during a drive-in campaign stop, in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

    Democrats got a rude awakening in rural America. Just look at Iowa

    Art Cullen
  • ‘The Upper Midwest has figured out that trade wars and picking fights with your friends can suck the life out of agriculture and manufacturing.’

    It's been a strange trip. Four years ago, who would've thought Biden might win Iowa?

    Art Cullen

October 2020

  • ‘The president engaged his base. Biden spoke to a country.’

    The final Biden-Trump presidential debate: our panelists' verdict

    Jill Filipovic, Art Cullen, Lloyd Green and Malaika Jabali
  • Former First Lady Michelle Obama has said she is suffering from ‘low-grade depression’ from coronavirus quarantine, racial strife in the United States and the ‘hypocrisy’ of the Trump administration.

    Feeling down about the state of America? Me too. But good news may be coming

    Art Cullen

September 2020

  • *** BESTPIX *** Americans Across The Nation Watch First Presidential Debate<br>WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 29: People sit and watch a broadcast of the first debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at The Abbey, with socially distanced outdoor seating, on September 29, 2020 in West Hollywood, California. The debate being held in Cleveland, Ohio is the first of three scheduled debates between Trump and Biden. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

    Trump v Biden in the first 2020 presidential debate: our panelists' verdict

    Lloyd Green, Derecka Purnell, Geoffrey Kabaservice and Art Cullen
  • ‘When your home burns down twice, do you bet on a third time?’

    Drought, plague, fire: the apocalypse feels nigh. Yet we have tools to stop it

    Art Cullen

August 2020

  • A recent derecho cut a swath of destruction through Iowa and the Midwest.

    Trump must win the Midwest. But out here his breezy reelection gambit falls flat

    Art Cullen
    We’re more concerned about drought, economic uncertainty and Covid than rightwing talking points about crime and socialism
  • ‘Grain bins were crumpled like aluminum foil. Three hundred thousand people remained without power in Iowa and Illinois on Friday.’

    Extreme weather just devastated 10m acres in the midwest. Expect more of this

    Art Cullen
    Unless we contain carbon, our food supply will be under threat. By 2050, US corn yields could decline by 30%
  • ‘Trump says the only way he can lose is through election fraud. In fact, it seems more likely that the only way he can win is through fraud.’

    Trump is in electoral hot water. It could be even worse for him by November

    Art Cullen
    The tide has turned and Trump is flailing. Even Texas and Georgia might be in play this year

July 2020

  • ‘A multi-decade drought previously forecast for 2050 is already taking shape in the Great Plains and Southwest. The implications are enormous.’

    The US is headed for climate disaster – but Joe Biden's green plan might just work

    Art Cullen
    Biden’s $2tn green agriculture plan is ambitious but realistic. That’s important, because everything is riding on it

May 2020

  • An empty street in Perry, Iowa, home of a Tyson pork processing plant.

    Midwesterners were already doubting Trump. Covid could seal his political fate

    Art Cullen
  • Virginia poultry processing plant temporarily closes for disinfection amid coronavirus pandemic<br>epa08389697 A truck loaded with chickens drives on the highway to deliver the fowl to the Tyson Temperanceville Complex near Temperanceville, Virginia, USA, 28 April 2020. As meatpacking plants across the United States are becoming hot spots of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Tyson Temperanceville processing plant will be closed between 24-16 April for a deep clean and disinfection procedure. EPA/SHAWN THEW

    Why is Trump insisting that meat-packing plants stay open despite risks?

    Art Cullen

April 2020

  • Art Cullen is editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times with his brother, John, publisher, and son Tom, a reporter.

    The newspaper industry was already faltering. Will coronavirus obliterate it?

    Art Cullen
    “We have been able to hang on by our ink-stained fingernails,” writes Art Cullen, editor of Iowa’s Storm Lake Times

March 2020

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-VOTE-BIDEN<br>(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 12, 2020 former US Vice President and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19, known as the Coronavirus, during a press event in Wilmington, Delaware. - Biden easily won the Florida primary, today’s biggest prize, on March 17, 2020, according to a projection by Edison Media Research, as voting continues in Arizona and Illinois. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

    Biden dominated again – is it time for Sanders to quit? Our panelists' verdict

    Art Cullen, Benjamin Dixon, Jessa Crispin, Andrew Gawthorpe andLloyd Green
    Biden moved well ahead in delegates after another successful primary night. Our panelists debate what it means for the race
  • Democratic Party Presidential Debate, Washington DC, USA - 15 Mar 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by CNN/REX/Shutterstock (10584090l) Former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders participate in the Democratic Presidential Debate Democratic Party Presidential Debate, Washington DC, USA - 15 Mar 2020 Because of concerns about the coronavirus, the debate was moved from Phoenix to Washington, D.C.

    Who won the Biden-Sanders debate? Our panelists weigh in

    Jessa Crispin, Art Cullen, Benjamin Dixon, Jill Filipovic and Lloyd Green
    The former vice-president and his more leftwing rival faced off in the first two-person Democratic debate
  • Democratic US presidential candidate and former vice-president Joe Biden speaks with his wife Jill at his side.

    What do Joe Biden’s wins mean? Our panelists weigh in

    Art Cullen, Katie Herzog, Benjamin Dixon, Malaika Jabali . Lloyd Green and Andrew Gawthorpe
    The former vice-president takes Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Idaho. What does this say about Democratic voters?
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