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.
Eric Black Ink
John McCain is embarrassing himself
His statement about President Obama and the Orlando massacre is crazy, illogical and stupid.
Eric Black Ink
Hillary Clinton’s brilliant and convincing takedown of Donald Trump
How it was possible that no one had done this sooner?
Eric Black Ink
Hillary the hawk: Clinton’s vast international experience has taught her some wrong lessons
She believes in the self-serving and self-blinding notion of American exceptionalism.
Eric Black Ink
PBS ‘Frontline’ documents U.S. mistakes in Iraq and the rise of ISIS
The “Secret History of ISIS” explores the steps taken (or not taken) by the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.
Eric Black Ink
Rethinking Trump’s foreign policy views: Maybe he’s a conviction politician
Donald Trump has been making many of the same arguments for years.
Eric Black Ink
Five takeaways from Donald Trump’s jeremiad on U.S. foreign policy
He relies mostly on the standard Republican creed that everything was going great until President Obama screwed it up.
Eric Black Ink
Obama’s foreign-policy doctrine, brilliantly explained
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg has produced an impressive article reviewing the president’s foreign and military policy.
Eric Black Ink
Trump is lying about what he said before the Iraq War
Research by FactCheck.org shows that, contrary to Donald Trump’s recent boasts, he did not oppose the war in advance.
Eric Black Ink
Larry Jacobs: President Obama’s second term far from a dud
University of Minnesota political scientist Larry Jacobs argues that Obama has had a more consequential second term than any other president since FDR.
Eric Black Ink
Donald Trump and the ‘plot against America’
Like reviewing a film, a critic attempts to explain the Trump phenomenon.
