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Art Cullen
Editor, The Storm Lake Times
Art Cullen is editor of The Storm Lake Times, a twice-weekly county seat newspaper in northwest Iowa. His brother John, the publisher, founded the paper in 1990 in their hometown; he also works with his wife, a photographer and feature writer, and his son, a reporter. Cullen has a 40-year career in in Iowa as a newspaper reporter and editor. He received a 2017 Pulitzer Prize for a series of editorials on agriculture and surface water pollution. Cullen is the author of Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper and writes opinion essays for The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The New York Times.
Previously
![Rural Mythticism: Fake News about Rural America](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null386d57bf-10cf-43d9-9603-1bfe6bc9bb31/48152530477_67cea81f09_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C16%2C1599%2C900&w=400)
Rural America has come to the nation’s attention. But much discussion in the media and coffee shops, at conferences and dinner tables, relies on incorrect or no data, largely...
![The First Democratic Debate: Watch Party and Discussion](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null6377ce61-9c4b-40bf-b729-645bbab81bdd/debate-pt1-aif19.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C0%2C2560%2C1440&w=400)
Gather together to watch the 2020 presidential primary season kick off with the first night of the official Democratic primary debate. What issues will dominate the discussion...
![Formidable or Fractured? The Democrats and the Road to 2020](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null1631bac2-3946-4b47-b94c-680bce9252d6/48133497372_baef19ede0_o.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C166%2C7952%2C4475&w=400)
What does the Democratic Party stand for today? Even its most ardent supporters might offer widely divergent answers to this question. Can it form a coherent set of priorities...