Sinclairwill remain the Senate president(the second-ranking position in the majority caucus), and Koelker will be one of four assistant majority leaders. Womenwill chairfive Iowa Senate committees next year, and men will lead 21. Weinerrecently becamethe third woman chosen to lead the Iowa Senat...
Labor leader Eugene Debs, who founded the Socialist Party in 1901 and ran for president five times under its banner, never received more than six percent of the national vote (garnering more than 900,000 votes in 1912), but he was a popular public figure. At its pe...