Community Voices
Space Force the wrong approach to a genuine threat
The military’s space operations do require reform and resources, but they don’t need a new, built-from-scratch bureaucracy to get the job done.
Armed Forces
Community Voices
Fit to serve: Data on transgender military service
Transgender veterans and service members have served and will continue to proudly serve our country despite persistent injustice and inequality.
Community Sketchbook
Photographing Minnesota’s forgotten Latino veterans
Xavier Tavera’s photos are on display at a new Minnesota Historical Society exhibit, AMVETS Post #5, which features portraits of Mexican and Mexican-American U.S. military veterans.
Community Voices
Veterans Day: Minnesota laws supplement federal protections for military veterans
These various measure constitute a means of saying, in a way most appropriate at this time of the year: “Thank you for your service.”
Eric Black Ink
Applauding the Nobel committee — while remaining skeptical that nukes can ever be abolished
I applaud Nobel committee’s sentiment. But I would certainly agree that it remains to be seen how much good it can do.
The Stroll
On the Mississippi’s Islands of Peace, ‘peace is a way of life every hour of every day’
On a winter afternoon, of course, buried under inches of snow, it all looks as still and ancient and ageless as a Bruegel painting.
The Stroll
Visiting the missile sites designed to protect the Twin Cities from a Soviet attack
In the event of Soviet bombers flying over the North Pole to destroy the United States, these missiles were meant to serve as a last defense of American cities.
The Stroll
What if Canada had acted on its 1921 Defense Scheme No. 1 and invaded the U.S.?
Had the middle prong’s flying columns reached Minneapolis, some targets would have been obvious.
Eric Black Ink
What Donald Trump should say to the Khans, but won’t
He doesn’t seem capable of apologizing.
Eric Black Ink
Donald Trump’s breathtaking self-admiration
Here’s a collection of straightforward bragging by Trump.