MINNEAPOLIS — Union and activist group leaders stirred a kerfuffle this week by pressing Twin Cities business owners to go along with an “economic blackout” on Friday to protest the ongoing crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents around the state.

Trying to do right in the face of wrong, these organizations are creating ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s phone, laptops and a smart watch last week represents an unacceptable and unconstitutional intrusion on the rights of journalists. The First Amendment affords members of the media specific protections against laws infringing on their work, and court cases ...Read more

Forget all of the monarchical gold doodads and childish plaques dissing Democratic presidents that now defile the White House, thanks to President Donald Trump. Ignore his egomaniacal addition of his name on the Kennedy Center. Such travesties are easily undone once he's gone.

Alas, the same can't be said for the incalculable damage that Trump ...Read more

What's the absolute best way to give Gov. Gavin Newsom free publicity and a worldwide audience?

Freeze him out at Davos, where the rich and powerful are meeting in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. The Trump administration is learning the hard way, in real time, that petty comes with a price — in this case, being laughed at by, well, ...Read more

Better late than never: One year into the second presidency of Donald Trump, the world has reached an inflection point, as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, made explicit in his speech at an economic summit in Davos. Having tried and failed to appease Trump’s imperialist bullying, middle powers such as his own country must and will ...Read more

The apologies have begun. Great. But that’s just the starting point for what’s really needed: a community conversation in South Florida about hate speech.

In case you haven’t heard, a video began circulating last week that appears to show a group of controversial influencers partying in a Miami Beach nightclub as the club plays Kanye West...Read more

We’ve reached the point in America’s polarization story where not even churches are sacred spaces.

Protesters angry about the fatal shooting of Renee Good and the increased presence of federal agents in the Minneapolis area crossed a line when they entered Cities Church in St. Paul and disrupted Sunday worship.

Videos posted online show ...Read more

A record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change.

As the ranks of the politically homeless grow, the share of Americans who call themselves Democrat or Republican continues to shrink. That’s hardly surprising.

Both parties increasingly ...Read more

The current trajectory for college sports is unsustainable. Big-revenue sports such as football and basketball have undergone massive transformations over the past decade, facilitated by a number of policy changes. Yet the changes they’ve undergone provide a clue as to how to salvage them.

The transfer portal was created in 2018 to facilitate...Read more

Now that I know how fond chatbots are of the em dash — the thing I just used to convey a thought that intruded on but is connected to the main sentence — I have a confession to make.

It’s in part my fault, apparently. Watch out for the semicolon, too; I sprinkle them like salt.

I’m one of those authors whose books AI ate for lunch a ...Read more

There’s only one way to describe President Donald Trump’s fixation with seizing Greenland: madness.

It’s a preoccupation that’s untethered from reality and lacks any rational justification. Indeed, none of the shifting rationales offered by the Trump administration makes any sense — particularly the supposed national security grounds ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland has triggered the predictable chorus of elite disbelief. Pundits scoff. European officials bristle. Commentators frame the idea as fanciful or provocative. Strip away the noise, however, and the case is simple: U.S. leadership in Greenland is strategically sound, increasingly urgent, and ...Read more

In the move to obliterate diversity, equity and inclusion, one word — merit — has stood out as an effective cudgel. The president’s executive orders claim to restore “meritocracy” and “merit-based opportunity” from the scourge of DEI.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth condemns the “toxic ideological garbage” of inclusive ...Read more

Florida Republicans have developed a bad habit of renaming things.

The Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of America. Sections of roads were renamed to honor President Donald Trump and late conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. And now there’s a push in the Florida Legislature to force the renaming of roadways across 40 Florida college...Read more

The siege of Minneapolis represents a fitting, if foreboding, capstone to the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term. Since returning to office one year ago, Trump has pursued no goal more passionately or persistently than breaking the ability of blue jurisdictions and their leaders to resist him.

In the process, he is straining ...Read more

The pre-AI world is gone. Estimates suggest that already, as many as one in eight kids personally knows someone who has been the target of a deepfake photo or video, with numbers rising to one in four who have seen a sexualized deepfake of someone they recognize, either a friend or a celebrity. This is a real problem, and it’s one that ...Read more

Some of the country’s most pressing problems have a simple solution — remove the regulatory obstacles that slow progress.

One obvious example is housing. The best way to reduce the cost of housing isn’t rent control. It’s to construct 10 million new houses. When supply dramatically increases, prices fall.

There’s an increasing demand...Read more

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk,” as Mark Zuckerberg famously put it. Judging from Meta Platforms, Inc, parent company of Facebook, announcement that it’s investing in new nuclear energy -- supporting up to 6.6 Gigawatts-- he wasn’t kidding. The plan includes two plant life extensions, three power expansions, and two advanced ...Read more

On Tuesday morning, all eyes on Wall Street seemed glued to the nearest screens in expectation that the Supreme Court would finally disgorge its opinion on the legality of President Donald Trump's tariffs.

It had been a long wait: The court heard oral arguments on the issue Nov. 5, when questions from the justices suggested that a majority was ...Read more

There are many things Donald Trump could regret about the aftermath of the 2020 election.

Perhaps it could be his nonstop lying about voter fraud, or how he was recorded asking Georgia election officials to “find” him the votes he needed. Maybe he has remorse about inciting the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol, violence that led to seven ...Read more