Sometimes a view of the bigger picture is born in small moments. The other day, I and my little pug, Lily, were at a friend’s house visiting her and her pug, Olive. The two dogs were crawling all over us on the couch, when Olive abruptly jumped off, ran to a corner of the room and hit a bell. Surprised, I asked my friend what that was about. ...Read more

It can hardly be disputed that science and medicine today are awash in disinformation.

It's why respected scientists get physically assaulted and hauled before partisan committees in Congress to be smeared. It's why childhood vaccine rates in some places are plummeting and measles is on the rampage across the country.

Therefore, it behooves us...Read more

In a country as wealthy as the United States, it is a bitter irony that millions of people still fall through the cracks of a social safety net meant to protect them.

Welfare programs exist, but they are fragmented, riddled with arbitrary rules and built around abrupt cutoffs that punish progress. Missing a form, filing late or earning slightly...Read more

As the Twin Cities reel from this month’s killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal immigration agents, the city’s business community responded with a call for common sense and common ground.

On Jan. 25, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce called for de-escalation, peace and cooperation, in a brief, carefully neutral notice signed by...Read more

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — offering to scale back ICE operations in exchange for the state’s compliance with her demands — is inappropriate and reads as a thinly veiled attempt at extortion.

“Operation Metro Surge,” involving the deployment of some 3,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...Read more

Big Tech is not merely reshaping how Americans consume information; it is warping how our democracy functions.

Social media platforms have quietly become the primary source of news for millions of Americans, accelerating the decline of traditional journalism and replacing it with algorithm-driven feeds optimized for outrage, speed and emotional...Read more

Put me down as an AI optimist. Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the economy and make Americans richer, healthier and more productive. I’d bet money on it — in fact I have, through the shares I own in an index fund, which means I am long the U.S. economy.

That said, there are certain things not even AI can do, and one ...Read more

It’s funny how art so often imitates life. Unless you’re Larry Summers.

As I considered the former Harvard University president and treasury secretary’s fall from grace, I couldn’t help but be reminded of “The Blue Angel.” This 1930 film tells the story of a stern but respectable teacher at a boys school. He is confronted with a ...Read more

For just $95, the acquisitive President Donald Trump could have a replica of the iconic "The Buck Stops Here" sign that sat atop President Truman's Oval Office desk, gift-boxed from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum Store. But this gewgaw isn't gold; it's wood. And yet that's not the reason it wouldn't be at home on Trump's ...Read more

The latest report on CTE is both enlightening and alarming.

As the Herald reported, a groundbreaking study from Boston University researchers found that those with CTE have a much higher chance of being diagnosed with dementia.

The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that the progressive brain disease ...Read more

As Super Bowl Sunday approaches—the second biggest food consumption day of the year—tons of people will ask AI for party recipes. Ask any AI for pork tacos, and it will quickly spit out several versions. But ask for cat tacos, and it will offer a lecture on morality instead of a shopping list. The contrast isn’t an error in code—it’s a...Read more

On every front, President Donald Trump’s tumultuous second term is testing the public’s tolerance for turmoil. American allies are recoiling from the shockwave Trump has unleashed on international affairs even as thousands of U.S. citizens protest the disorder he has unleashed at home.

The administration’s uncharacteristic retreat this ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — They can’t seem to believe it. Federal officials, talking about Minneapolis all over the place, keep stressing just how unusual this resistance is.

They’ve never seen anything like it.

“In one city — in one city we have this outrage and this powder keg happening," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said recently on ...Read more

On Saturday, federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse and U.S. citizen, as he helped another protester whom agents had pushed to the ground. Trump administration officials, trotting out the odious narrative tropes used to justify lethal extrajudicial killings, reflexively defended the agents’ actions, ...Read more

Wave the red flags when socialist Bernie Sanders and progressive Elizabeth Warren are on the same page as Republican Donald Trump. And so it is with the misguided push to micromanage the credit card industry.

This month, President Donald Trump announced that he backs a proposal to impose a temporary (read: permanent) 10% ceiling on credit card ...Read more

Words matter.

With his nonstop litany of lies and insults, President Donald Trump appears to believe no one will remember what he said yesterday or last week (perhaps he can’t recall, either).

Yet, just as Americans won’t forget how Kristi Noem smeared Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti as a “domestic terrorist,” European allies won’t ...Read more

Not even the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension knows the names of the federal immigration agents who wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and fired 10 times at him on Jan. 24.

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have so far refused to cooperate with state investigators and release evidence crucial to ...Read more

Republican elected officials are choosing their words carefully, but many are starting to realize the federal government’s paramilitary crackdown on Minnesota has put them in political peril. Even President Donald Trump himself is showing belated signs of pulling back.

But Republicans will need to go much further if they’re going to stop ...Read more

Chicago talks a lot about affordability. But for families with young kids, there is one cost that overwhelms almost everything else — child care.

I know this firsthand. Like so many parents in this city, my family has paid day care bills that rival a mortgage payment. Every month, those costs force real tradeoffs: savings or stability, career...Read more

The killing of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal agents underscores a growing crisis facing the White House: Its reckless deportation campaign has spun out of control. If congressional Republicans don’t start holding the administration to account, they’ll be putting public safety at even greater risk — ...Read more