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Lori Sturdevant
How to hold onto Minnesota exceptionalism? Look to the immigrants who built, and are still building, a future here
Look to the immigrants who built — and are still building — a future here.
John Rash
Rash Report: Journalists cover, and are central to, Senate's Saudi rebuke
Jamal Khashoggi's murder spurs Senate to condemn the crown prince and end U.S. military aid for the war in Yemen.
D.J. Tice
Scrutinizing what 'everybody knows' about inequality
Maybe the rich-poor gap is not as yawning as thought. So much depends on inputs and definitions.
Lori Sturdevant
The near future of higher ed at the State Capitol
Let's check in with two new legislative committee leaders about the challenges they'll face.
D.J. Tice
Social policy side effects may include …
How best-laid solutions on border security, family leave and drug-abuse prevention all backfired.
Lori Sturdevant
Circumstances thrust a critical issue on the governor-elect
It's climate change. Time is short, and the White House isn't doing the job. What can a state do? Plenty.
John Rash
Rash Report: 'Roma' is human, and humane, counternarrative
New film by acclaimed Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón reflects an alternative cultural, commercial approach.
Lori Sturdevant
How to make government better? You have plenty to say
And so do two leading voices on the subject who are in town. (Ranked-choice voting, anyone?)
John Rash
Best of British advertising amid worst of Brexit times
"Arrows Awards" reel, which begins its annual Walker Art Center run, may better reflect British society.
Lori Sturdevant
Math doesn't add up on state Social Security tax cut
Exempting Social Security from taxes now would take an ever-bigger bite from state treasury.
John Rash
Rash Report: 'Front Runner' Gary Hart stumbled at new era's starting line
New movie recalls the 1988 sex scandal that engulfed the favorite to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
D.J. Tice
Of 'nones' and Jesuits and that old-time religion
A retreat at which we pondered riddles of faith shows the staying power of spirituality.
Lori Sturdevant
Peterson, Emmer bridge the divide of geography and party
So perhaps U.S. Reps. Collin Peterson and Tom Emmer have something to show us.
John Rash
Rash Report: 'A Private War' depicts the public cost of combat
The new film tells the story of intrepid war reporter Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy.
Lori Sturdevant
Presidential prospects for the 'senator next door'
The style that's won Klobuchar so much Minnesota support can transfer — and is beginning to.
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