Wars

On the week of Memorial Day, listen back to River to River's conversations about veterans who heeded the call to serve the nation and didn't return.

Their destinies intertwined at the Battle of the Bulge. Relisten to a story of two men and the ethics of war.

As Russia struggles to explain its bombing of a Ukrainian hospital, what does accountability look like on the international stage? And what are the implications of Biden's Supreme Court nomination — potentially the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation.

Host Ben Kieffer talks with political scientists Jim McCormick and Karen Kedrowski of ISU about the war in Ukraine and how the American public is likely to respond to the ban on Russian oil imports and continued high prices at the gas pump.

Iowa's southeastern representative to Congress talks about her support for the Violence Against Women Act, a bill many fellow Republicans, including her own Iowan colleagues, came out against.

The Iowa governor's national potential. The real carbon cost of corn. And new music for the weekend.

Experts from the University of Iowa discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the country's long history and its complicated future.

The logistics of setting Afghan refugees up in Iowa. And what It's a Wonderful Life can teach us about history and representations of Iowa.

Ben Kieffer talks to former Iowa writer-in-residence Homeira Qaderi and University of Iowa International Writing Program Director Chris Merrill.

We continue our "Leaving Afghanistan" series with Cera Wilkins, an Iowa Army National Guard medic, who has been thinking about the Afghan women she met during her deployment.