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Joe Battenfeld: Liberals who hid Joe Biden's decline question Trump's mental fitness
Liberal Democrats who for years covered up Joe Biden’s mental decline are now raising questions about President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior and fitness for office – even invoking the Constitution to remove him from power.
“Invoke the 25th Amendment,” Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey – who is facing a Democratic primary challenge –...Read more
Michael Hiltzik: Minnesota's Fortune 500 corporations finally speak out about ICE, but not loudly enough
Here are a couple of points about the business community of Minnesota you may not have known.
First, it's home to a surprisingly large cadre of 17 major corporations, members of Fortune's roster of the 500 largest U.S. companies.
Some of America's best-known consumer companies, including UnitedHealth Group, Target, Best Buy, 3M and General ...Read more
George Skelton: Newsom tried to punch over his weight class in the Alps
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When a California governor goes to Europe and lectures world leaders that they must “grow a spine” and “stand tall” against the American president, I wince.
Not that they shouldn’t, nor that President Donald Trump doesn’t deserve almost any nasty thing said about him. It just seems a tad arrogant.
A world ...Read more
Aaron Brown: As freedom is tested in Minnesota, the world watches
MINNEAPOLIS -- For as long as I can remember, the word “Russia” was shorthand for “oppression.” I grew up at the end of the Cold War and celebrated the unraveling of the Soviet Union, easily conflating the nightly news with Rocky IV.
But I learned that the world isn’t as black-and-white as Cold War propaganda suggested. Oppression can...Read more
Commentary: Alex Pretti's death shows why militarized immigration raids portend lethal force
A man stands to the side in Minneapolis, recording what is happening in front of him with his phone. Nearby, federal immigration agents deploy pepper spray on a female protester. The man steps forward. What began as observation becomes intervention.
Within moments, several agents move toward him and pin him to the ground. They shoot at him ...Read more
Editorial: Trump's Minneapolis misadventure turns deadly for a second time
“Americans are not liking what they see,” Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said Sunday of the Saturday morning events in Minneapolis that resulted in the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer.
Ya think, governor?
So what do you and your fellow Republicans plan to do about a situation that has gone so far ...Read more
Editorial: Another senseless killing in Trump's senseless war against Americans
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes … Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared … Everyone is scared … No one can keep out of the conflict … the end...Read more
Editorial: Nation reels from second deadly ICE shooting
Enough is enough. With two people now dead in Minneapolis, it’s time for everyone involved to do what’s necessary to defuse the tension and to avoid further tragedy.
On Saturday, ICE agents shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse who was involved in a protest and became embroiled in a confrontation with immigration ...Read more
John M. Crisp: The chaos in Minneapolis is all about the midterms
A few months ago, I made three bold predictions in print: (1) President Donald Trump will be impeached for a third time; (2) If Democrats win in the midterms, Trump will not accept the results of the election; and (3) Trump will not complete the final three years of his term. How are these predictions faring?
For predictions (1) and (3), it’s...Read more
Commentary: Iran's crisis is a test of US moral leadership
Right now, as you read this, Iranian protesters are facing live ammunition in Tehran’s streets. Women risk execution for removing their hijabs. Some 12,000 to 20,000 people are feared dead from the protest crackdown. The regime is vulnerable, weakened by strikes on its nuclear program, facing economic collapse, confronting a population that ...Read more
Lisa Jarvis: The problem with that 'Great Healthcare Plan'
This month, as Americans who rely on Affordable Care Act plans opened their first bills of 2026 and experienced sticker shock, President Donald Trump began pitching them on an alternative: his “Great Healthcare Plan,” which would shift government support away from subsidizing insurance coverage toward putting money directly into accounts ...Read more
Editorial: Trump and China make a welcome TikTok deal. There's still plenty to worry about
Nearly two years ago, this page endorsed bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by Illinois congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, to force the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest the wildly popular app’s platform in the U.S. or see it shut down.
The bill became law with President Joe Biden’s signature and survived a Supreme Court challenge. But ...Read more
Commentary: Free speech needs a reset in America
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.
Terms like “hate speech” and “ racism�...Read more
Commentary: Navigating the quiet tyranny of the LinkedIn 'like'
We hate them for not liking our LinkedIn posts.
Of course, not really. But who hasn’t refreshed their browser repeatedly to see how many likes their latest post has — or hasn’t — garnered, and from whom?
While it’s not life or death, it isn’t pure ego either. With layoffs in the U.S. now reaching their highest levels since COVID-19...Read more
Commentary: Political and economic pressures set up a health care shift in 2026
Health care in 2025 was consumed by chaos, conflict and relentless drama. Yet despite unprecedented political turmoil, cultural division and major technological breakthroughs, there was little meaningful improvement in how care is paid for or delivered.
That outcome was not surprising. American medicine is extraordinarily resistant to change. ...Read more
Juan Pablo Spinetto: How to navigate Venezuela's murky moral waters
For those who think about politics in terms of ideology and rigid categories, the extraordinary events in Venezuela pose an uncomfortable question: what is the morally correct position to take in a drama this complex?
Some celebrate Nicolás Maduro’s removal simply because he was a brutal dictator. They’re largely indifferent to the ...Read more
Editorial: EPA shouldn't try to hide the benefits of clean air
The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to stop quantifying the health benefits of regulating soot and ozone is a victory for polluters and a loss for the public. Masking the benefits will make it easier for the EPA to defend lax regulations on toxic emissions but harder to make America healthy again. More people will get sick and die, ...Read more
Commentary: The deep, soul-sustaining truth of the '6-7' meme
How better could the deep mystical truth we need today be represented than by Dictionary.com’s choice of “6-7” as 2025’s word of the year?
This was insightful not because of the brain rot that produced this nonsense phrase so beloved by every human between the ages of 5 and 15 — including my own kids laughing uproariously as they ...Read more
Adam Minter: It's ICE that 'engineered chaos' in my Minneapolis community
On Saturday morning, Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on a busy Minneapolis street. The Trump administration wasted no time in doing a bit of preemptive inoculation.
In a post on X Saturday, Vice President JD Vance claimed that “far left agitators, working with local officials,” had “engineered chaos” in Minneapolis. ...Read more
Laura Yuen: My parents thought we had made it. Now we carry papers
MINNEAPOLIS — In recent weeks my 80-year-old Asian American parents have started to carry their passports each time they leave their suburban townhouse. Neighbors on their Ring doorbell app will alert users when ICE agents are spotted on nearby roads. My mom has canceled appointments after receiving such warnings. A practical woman, she says ...Read more




















































