Minnesota shouldn’t turn a blind eye to our health coverage deserts
Minnesota’s rate of people lacking sufficient health insurance coverage is half the national rate. But that number doesn’t tell the full story.
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This Thanksgiving, go for the stuffing — and skip the COVID-shaming
We all have choices to make about how we live our lives, and how healthy we are. But let’s agree that no one deserves to get COVID.
My generation must do better in the fight to end COVID
As cases surge and ICU beds fill up, it has become apparent who is responsible. It’s young people, engaged in risky behavior and convinced of our infallibility.
Thank you, 2020. No, really
Gratitude can be found on the flip side of most everything. Rarely is anything 100 percent bad.
Some advice for a new administration: Appoint a woman of color as U.S. secretary of education
None has ever held this role, so let’s send a message to our children.
Americans need to keep faith with democracy
As we mark the 57th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we should note the speech he was scheduled to make that fateful day. What he was calling for in that address was faith — in ourselves, our country and our democracy.
All Trump has are lies about fraud
Trump can’t produce evidence of fraud because: There. Was. No. Fraud.
Why the power to pardon is so problematic in the hands of Trump
Pardoning himself could be the crowning blow in Donald Trump’s tainting of the presidency.
When it comes to Mitch McConnell, we should hope for the best — but be prepared for the worst
Is there a chance a few Senate Republicans will have the wisdom and courage to put loyalty to country above loyalty to McConnell?
Problem-solving and innovative solutions only occur when you work from the middle out
Problem-solving and innovative solutions only occur when you work from the middle out. That’s what Jim Ramstad did. That’s why he was so successful in achieving breakthrough legislation in mental health and other areas.
In Poland, hate is spreading against LGBTQ, Jews, Muslims
Attacking the LGBTQ community played a major role in Poland’s right-wing president, Andrzej Duda, July re-election to a second five-year term.
Minnesota voters have shown clean water and the Boundary Waters to be a winning issue
They are ready for those they elected to pass legislation that protects our natural heritage.
What the 2020 exit polls tell us about Minnesota
The election was both a personal rejection of Donald Trump and a collective verdict against one-party control of government.
What the Boston resisters of the 1760s and 1770s can teach us
We Americans, all 330 million of us, could find ourselves on the edge of another epoch, on the brink of writing another momentous chapter in American history.
What will become of the GOP?
History will not forget those who allowed Donald Trump to deconstruct the values and institutions that have made America the greatest country in the world. It will take good people from within — younger and committed conservatives — to say enough is enough.
The U.S. takes center stage at the U.N.
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council is meeting in Geneva for its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States.
Why we need new teaching methods for our post-COVID future
As devastating as the pandemic has been on education, it also presents an opportunity to reorient instruction to be more interdisciplinary, learner-driven and community-oriented.
California ‘Clean Cars’ standards for Minnesota? Bad policy, bad process
These newly proposed regulations could have a devastating effect on a strong economy, let alone the ailing economy we are currently experiencing.
On red states, Trump voters, and foreign affairs
I’ve had many interesting and enjoyable contacts with the people in Wyoming. I have avoided bringing up political matters.
MPCA sidelines science in Line 3 water permitting process
As scientists who have worked in water resources management, geology, ecosystem assessment, energy systems, and public health, we were shocked at how independent science has been largely ignored in the permit review process.
