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Due to COVID restrictions, the Minnesota State Capitol remained fenced off to the public Jan. 4, the day before the start of the 2021 regular session

The politics of obstruction, Minnesota-style

Like the much-debated U.S. Senate filibuster, Minnesota's requirement of a supermajority to pass bonding bills is under scrutiny, and should be.

In praise of upholding the rule of law

April 3
Justice Paul C. Thissen, above at his swearing-in ceremony in 2018, recently made a ruling following a bad law — a law that can be fixed.
Even, as puzzling as it may be, when it's a lousy law.

WHO faces a health and geopolitical pandemic

April 2
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a news conference on COVID-19 in February 2020.
World Health Organization leader will kick off Global Minnesota's World Health Day Symposium, which will focus on health equity.

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Blaine Cooper
April 10
Marijuana legalization is spreading across the U.S.

Legal marijuana will lead us to a 'Brave New World'

It's extreme, but inevitable.
Ezra Klein, New York Times
April 10
President Joe Biden speaks during an event on the American Jobs Plan in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington on April 7.

The re-education of a public man

How Biden became a radical.
Ahmed Tharwat
April 9
Edward Said, the writer says, is the most influential Palestinian American intellectual of the 20th century. Said explained in his book “Orientalism

An Arab American's guide to Arab Americans

Newly designated Heritage Month is a departure from hostile past.
John Rash, Rash Report
April 9
Left, Sinclair Lewis inscribed his photo “amiably” to Chicago Sun literary critic C. N. Thomas, and it’s dated “Chicago, Oct. 10, 1922.” Rig

100 years on, 'Main Street' divide endures

New exhibit about Sinclair Lewis, author of the seminal novel about small-town America, opens at the Minnesota History Center.
Kate Masur
April 9
A oil-on-canvas mural by Allyn Cox of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866. In the foreground, former slave Henry Garnet is shown speaking with

Lessons for today social movements, from the struggle that began before the Civil War

Change takes time. Alliances aren't always pure. Seize opportunity when you have it.
Michael R. Strain
April 9
“By distributing the child allowance as monthly income,” writes Michael R. Strain, “the government would encourage middle-class parents to stop

Biden's child tax credit has a fatal flaw

It's a paradigm shift — a monthly income, not a tax break, and for the middle class, not the poor.
Dan Gross
April 9
A customer considered a handgun in Kissimmee, Fla.

I helped lead the gun control movement. It's asking the wrong questions.

A campaign galvanized by mass shootings and assault weapons is one overlooking the bulk of preventable gun incidents.
John Kass, Chicago Tribune
April 8
Workers load an All-Star sign onto a trailer after it was removed from Truist Park in Atlanta on April 6. The game is being moved to Coors Field in De

Biden throws out a pitch for America's new pastime: race baiting

The president used the race card to attack Georgia's new election law and encouraged the All-Star Game to be moved from Atlanta.
Cedrick Frazier
April 8
The attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 shows that white supremacy is still prevalent. As investigations continue, we are learning that some of the r

We must outlaw white supremacy in law enforcement

Those tasked with protecting and serving our communities can't fulfill their roles when affiliated with white supremacy groups.
Opinion Exchange
April 8

If privacy can be assured, 'vaccine passports' are a good idea

Credentials would help Americans, businesses navigate the pandemic.
Michael Hiltzik
April 8
LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, spoke at a protest directed toward Delta Air Lines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airpo

What the complacency caucus gets wrong about the Georgia voting law

Meanwhile, don't give Coca-Cola, Delta too much credit for resistance. They were meek when it mattered most.
Nicholas Kristof
April 8
Local team players competed in a curling competition during a test event for the 2022 Winter Olympics at National Aquatic Center, also known as the �

How to partly boycott the 'Genocide Olympics' in Beijing

Let the athletes play — and use their leverage to speak. Let the Games be broadcast. But corporations and public officials: Stay away.
Francisco Lara-García
April 8
A migrant and his daughter waited for transportation to the airport on March 28 in Mission, Texas.

The border can't be our only concern. We need an immigrant integration policy.

The help we offer newcomers is patchwork at best. Neither political side is focused on this.
Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
April 7
The violence in Chicago is rarely included in the national discourse on mass shootings. Above, Chicago police work a crime scene on April 6, where sev

Why don't Chicago's mass shootings count?

Other American cities get headline treatment when tragedy stikes, but in predominantly Black neighborhoods it's treated as routine.
Mark A. Young
April 7
An area of the Amazon rainforest inside the Jamanxin National Forest, burned to clear land for cattle pasture, near Novo Progresso, Brazil, Sept. 25,

Counterpoint: In truth, overpopulation is blighting human lives

We don't need more people on the planet, we need to change the economic system.
Jamelle Bouie
April 7
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp spoke during a news conference at the State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday, April 3, 2021, about Major League Baseball’s dec

Georgia's voting law: If it's not Jim Crow, what is it?

It's at least Jim Crow-adjacent. Then, as now, there was a web of disenfranchisement, but not an explicit statute that said: 'Black people can't vote.'
James M. Lawson Jr., Daniel B. Cornfield and Dennis C. Dickerson
April 7
March 18, 1960: Students at a Nashville lunch counter.

Nashville model of social change is replicable for today's movements

It shows that clearly articulated objectives are crucial to building credibility.
the Editorial Board of the Baltimore Sun
April 7
A memorial to George Floyd outside of Cup Foods convenience store in Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.

A death like George Floyd's is what happens when police dismiss the community

What if they had heeded the cries from those people begging Derek Chauvin to let up and the other officers to intervene?
Karin Winegar
April 6
Bees are one of the many pollinators harmed by pesticides.

Minnesota is poised to lead an environmental breakthrough

Pending bills would give communities local control over pesticides, safeguard protected wildlife areas and more.
Jim Meyer
April 6
A crowd gathered outside the home of Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman in May 2020.

We must step back from the politics of intimidation

These crowd actions are legal but the escalation in frequency and intensity, particularly by the progressive left, is getting dangerous.
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  1. I helped lead the gun control movement. It's asking the wrong questions.
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  3. The re-education of a public man
  4. We must outlaw white supremacy in law enforcement
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