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

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

When he's not busy slathering the White House in gold or recklessly sundering foreign alliances, President Donald Trump loves to talk about voter fraud.

Although the incidence is rare — like, spotting-a-pangolin-in-the-wild rare — Trump persistently emits a gaseous cloud of false claims. About rigged voting machines, dead people casting ...Read more

How do you know what you know?

Did you learn it in school, read it in a newspaper? Did you get your information on social media or though chatter with friends?

Even in an age of misinformation and disinformation — which we really need to start clearly calling propaganda — we continue to rely on old ways of knowing. We take it for granted ...Read more

President Donald Trump has an army of bootlickers that seems to stretch to the sunset. Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from bot accounts on X.

Then there's Bill Essayli. When it comes to saying anything to please a president with autocratic dreams, the former Assembly member is a bootlicking ...Read more

Where can one go to hear the moral sanity that counters the grudgeful actions of the American president? Where can we hear the voice of compassion and empathy as immigration agents ignore the most basic rights of Americans and demonstrate the heavy hand of authoritarian government in action? Who would have guessed it would come from a former ...Read more

In the wake of the fatal shooting of a Minnesota mother by an immigration agent this month, House Democrats have filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

These lawmakers are on the right track, but they need not have waited so long. Throughout her year at the Department of Homeland Security, Noem has shown ...Read more

The pandemic may seem like ages ago, but the financial fallout continues. In December, a Nevada legislative committee learned that the state still hasn’t burned through a quarter of the federal money it received from Congress during COVID. Washington plans to claw back any funds that aren’t spent by the end of this year.

The presentation to...Read more

A decade ago, bootcamp workouts had little to do with appearance or chasing personal records. For me, they meant survival. They offered a way to manage stress, process grief, and stay upright beneath the weight of vocation and responsibility.

Pastoral leadership, specifically during the time of “parachute church-planting,” often convinces ...Read more

Is the headlong rush toward wearing ever more relaxed clothing over? That question has preoccupied investors since analysts at Bank of America Corp. called time on the sneaker boom this month.

The answer is yes. Evidence from catwalks, social media, retailers and sales data shows we’re wearing more sophisticated clothing and footwear again. ...Read more

There is a natural human tendency to assume that your generation has it harder than everyone else. Even by those standards, however, baby boomers (and some older millennials) are on the receiving end of an extraordinary amount of resentment. You could fill a good-sized library with all the books devoted to boomer-hate.

Much of the blame heaped ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — They consider taxation to be theft, oppose gun regulations and want to dismantle the welfare state. But they’re also royally pissed off about the federal operation in the Twin Cities.

Meet the libertarians.

The bastions of smaller government and individual freedom have planted their “Don’t Tread On Me” flag in the ...Read more

Most of us learned this lesson in grade school: Appeasement doesn’t stop a bully. It invites only more bullying. The only thing that works is standing up for yourself. It isn’t a guaranteed win. You might still get a bloody nose. But if you don’t fight back, you are certain to lose, again and again.

Europe learned this lesson in 1938, ...Read more

The U.S. government released some long-delayed data Thursday that seemed to prove true the cliché about never betting against American consumers.

According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, spending increased 0.3% in both October and November when adjusted for inflation. The results were in line with the average monthly gain over the past ...Read more

Sure, President Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policy has alienated allies, shredded the U.S.-led rules-based global order, nudged Canada closer to China and turned NATO into something resembling your uncle’s Facebook page after someone brings up politics.

Other than that? Everything’s terrific.

Just kidding. It might be even worse than ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Spoiler alert: No, Los Angeles schools do not discriminate against white students.

But a new lawsuit from a conservative group is claiming that they do — and there are enough frustrated parents out there that it's getting a lot of attention.

So here we are, folks, in the age of Trump, once again faced with those who are ...Read more

Donald Trump’s sudden retreat from his military and economic threats to seize Greenland from NATO ally Denmark shows it is still possible to block the president from further foreign policy folly.

Trump did a complete U-turn at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, shortly after berating European allies and NATO in a lengthy, lie-...Read more

President Donald Trump prudently backed off from his Greenland invasion threat, perhaps signaling that he’s ready to again turn his attention to containing one of this nation’s actual enemies, Vladimir Putin and Russia.

For nearly a year, the Senate has sat on a bipartisan proposal intended to exert additional pressure on Putin to end his ...Read more

It seems very highly probable that the Supreme Court will allow Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to remain in office despite President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her. It’s less clear whether the justices will find a way to make the case go away altogether, or whether they will send it back to the lower courts for additional fact-...Read more

Even as the world focuses on the future of Greenland, the Trump administration has effectively walked away from events in Iran. Following the largest protests in the country since the 1979 revolution, President Donald Trump put the theocratic regime on notice that further killing of protesters would provoke a U.S. response. He later appeared to ...Read more