Presidential ranking: C-Span survey shows Trump in 41st place
The three that came in lower than Donald Trump were Franklin Pierce, 42; Andrew Johnson, 43; and James Buchanan, 44.
Opinion
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On profanity and our very slowly changing views toward women and girls
A woman overheard in the supermarket is surely far from being alone in her thinking that it’s OK for boys to use the f-bomb but not girls.
How the billions MacKenzie Scott is giving to colleges attended by students of color will help everyone in America
It is estimated that the nation could earn $5.3 trillion in increased tax revenue from a more skilled workforce if we closed the achievement gap in math and science over the next 60 years.
Could unions be next for Gophers and other college sports teams?
The coalescence of two recent court cases may warrant revisiting the issue of unionization of college athletics, at least those in big-time sports activities.
We can have the filibuster or democracy, but not both
If you commit to bipartisanship with a party that’s waging an all-out war on democracy, the only bipartisan thing you’ll win is its demise.
Assessing the Hennepin County Climate Action Plan
The Hennepin County Board of Commissioners adopted its first Climate Action Plan on May 4. Unfortunately, the plan falls short of what it needs to do.
It’s time to stop assigning letter and number grades
We now have a real chance to disrupt traditional grading practices in schools, districts and even higher education.
On the war within drug treatment
Medical and treatment providers disagree about which treatments are most effective, and people continue to face barriers getting into treatment.
Widening homeownership gap in Twin Cities is focus of new report
Despite the overall wealth of the metro area, there’s no starker sign of its segregation of opportunity than the wide gulf between Black and white homeownership rates, the largest in the nation.
Biden promised to change policies on Cuba. How will the U.S. vote at the U.N. this week?
On Wednesday the General Assembly will again vote on a resolution calling on the U.S. to end its 60-year economic, commercial, financial, cultural blockade imposed against Cuba.
This is our moment to reinvent school
We can see more clearly now than ever before that students aren’t learning the skills needed to succeed in a global, dynamic society and that the current factory model of education perpetuates systemic inequality.
Minnesota is ‘rolling in cash’: Let’s use it to connect Minnesotans to jobs
Minnesota and Minnesotans will always need people who show up. How will they show up? A lot of us will show up by taking the bus … if the Legislature lets us.
Is America back? Fareed Zakaria points out ‘the decay of American democracy is real’
He adds: “It’s not a messaging or image problem. Until we can repair that, I’m not sure we can truly say America is back.”
Another missed opportunity for racial equity at the Legislature
It is time that the language of racial equity heard so often at the Capitol translates into a process for achieving it within the lives of Minnesota’s BIPOC communities.
For Democrats, Joe Manchin is frustrating, but better than the alternative
As Steve Chapman makes clear his most recent column in the Chicago Tribune, Manchin is almost certainly the only Democrat who could hold that West Virginia seat for the party.
Public safety: Weak gun laws have loopholes
Minnesota and federal laws are clearly inadequate to prevent gun-trafficking by straw buyers.
PSEO: Too few high school students know about it
PSEO stands for Post Secondary Enrollment Options and it allows 10th, 11th, and 12th graders to take college classes for high school and college credit at little to no cost.
Fragmented Mirrors: Queering Jewish histories of the Holocaust
With a discerning eye, the past begins to circulate anew, and more inclusive histories emerge in unexpected ways.
The American Rescue Plan: Help is here, Minnesota
The ARP includes a key component that local governments have been begging for for a while now: increased flexibility.
What now, what next: Investing in anti-racism
We must invest in dismantling systemic racism and build new systems — through approaches that move away from a medical model of diagnosing social ills and imposing cures toward an anthropological one built on listening to and learning from the community.
