Rebecca Zweig

Rebecca Zweig is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa. She is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and lives in Iowa City.

ActivismJanuary 21, 2020

The Iowa Caucuses Have Long Turned Out the ‘Same Old White Crew.’ 2020 Could Be Different.

After the shock of 2016, grassroots organizers set out to make the Iowa caucuses more representative of the changing state. Soon we’ll find out if they succeeded.

Rebecca Zweig
LaborMarch 29, 2019

‘Organize or Die’: Kooper Caraway Ushers in a New Labor Movement

The 28-year-old president of the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO puts international solidarity to work in South Dakota.

Rebecca Zweig
State and Local ElectionsOctober 22, 2018

J.D. Scholten Bets the Farm on Beating Steve King

Just weeks from the midterms, an Iowa hometown hero is gaining ground on one of Congress’s most toxic incumbents.

Rebecca Zweig
StatesDecember 20, 2017

Socialism Comes to Iowa

An unusual coalition may be a template for the growing American left.

Nicolás Medina Mora and Rebecca Zweig
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