We need to (small) talk
The big talk is only going to get bigger in the coming weeks. Our nervous system needs the “little” things, too, and so do we.
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Lincoln Project’s Michael Steele: ‘America, or Trump? I choose America’
The group of former Republican or anti-Trump Republican political figures has been making and airing some of the most withering anti-Trump TV ads.
Public spaces: How to consider removing a statue
I propose we reconsider our public spaces every 40 years.
Ruminations on rereading ‘The Great Gatsby’
Inevitably because of our current electoral season, my most recent rereading of the book conjured up similarities between the story and Donald Trump and his America.
Legislature: Stop sidetracking passenger rail in Minnesota
The Twin Cities-Milwaukee-Chicago project would add a second daily Amtrak train between St. Paul and Chicago following the route of the famed Empire Builder.
Worst U.S. president? Consider James Buchanan
Buchanan, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was president in the four years leading up to the Civil War, including the final months of his term when southern states started seceding.
At election time, you have a voice — and it is your obligation to use it
We must make our informed choice and pull a lever, check a box, or punch a chad. Like it or not, this is our burden as citizens of the greatest country to ever grace God’s green earth.
It’s time to stand up for the Boundary Waters
We must protect the Boundary Waters from proposed sulfide-ore copper mining in its watershed.
NYT editorial cites Trump’s ‘ruinous tenure,’ threat to democracy
Titled “End Our National Crisis,” it begins: “Donald Trump’s re-election campaign poses the greatest threat to American democracy since World War II.”
Forget politics. Court packing is a good idea.
Expanding the number of Supreme Court justices makes sense for wholly apolitical reasons. The main one is the favorable effect it would have on the court’s productivity.
Promising steps in the Cedar-Riverside community toward equitable health care
M Health Fairview, Augsburg University, East Africa Health Project and People’s Center Clinics & Services are partnering to open an expanded and enhanced “Health Commons” space in the Riverside Plaza complex.
Words matter, as do all the categories of people living in the U.S.
Why do we have to put down others, speak in disgust of others, to show the value of the Latine community?
How three classic Twin Cities bars are barely surviving COVID-19
The Spot, Palmer’s Bar and the Black Hart are hanging on. But with winter approaching and nothing but crickets from Congress, the coming season might be the worst for local pubs since Prohibition.
On medical-update spin: Plain honesty remains the best policy
After nearly two weeks of conflicting reports about President Trump’s COVID-19 condition and his apparent incredible recovery, I’ve had cause to recall the years I spent as a medical-center spokesperson.
On Zoom with the U’s Larry Jacobs, Tom Friedman talks about Trump and democratic decay
Friedman, who said he is really worried right now, suggested that American governance needs a dose of “radical centrism.”
Fossil gas: myths and facts
Three plans for new fossil gas plants in the region are based on a series of myths about gas versus clean energy as a source of electricity.
‘The Scheme’: Sen. Whitehouse pulls back the veil on big money and judicial nominations
Of course, rich and powerful interests are involved, usually behind the scenes, in matters affecting their business and their ideological interests. But Whitehouse laid out in some detail how it works.
Voting: Armed ‘security’ at polling sites disturbing
Unnecessary interference in the state’s elections by private security agencies or armed citizens who aim to “defend” right-wing ideology is a dangerous escalation of tensions.
Examining being ‘Nordic’ in Minnesota
If Scandinavian Americans are dismayed and disturbed by people and groups who use Nordic themes and heritage as weapons against people of color, immigrants, and Indigenous people, we should not ignore this misuse of history and culture but hold it up for study.
Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination is emblematic: We are headed into uncharted waters
The hearings, which began this morning, are a bit of a sham and not subtly so.
