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Opinion: Minnesota lawmakers need to protect LGBTQ+ youth

"While HF 4138 does not explicitly censor words, its outright ban on “addictive interface features” for young people aged 15 and younger will effectively scrub the digital safe spaces...

Executive Power in Minnesota: What Can a Governor Do by Executive Order?

Minnesota executive orders, emergency powers, and the 2026 Boundary Waters mining dispute Presidents have long used executive orders to...

Good public health takes time; the bad happens quickly

The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to fast-track flavored vaping products and nicotine pouches, allowing the sale of...

The Real-Time Erosion of Minnesota’s Legacy of Care

Minnesota’s human services system is not facing just another challenge. It is failing in real time. And that failure...

Why It’s More Complicated Than “Just Hold the Vote”

Perhaps the hardest test of any system is whether we still trust it when the stakes feel impossibly...

Minnesota Shut the Public Out of Human Services Decisions — And That Should Alarm Everyone

When government shuts people out, it shouldn’t be surprised when the policies it produces don’t work. Minnesota lawmakers just made sweeping decisions about human services...

The Hidden Consequences of Minnesota’s Social Media Bill

By Jason Peter Stauffacher For decades, Minnesota has been celebrated as the “North Star” for human rights—a sanctuary state where individuals are free to be...

HF 4144 Moves Minnesota Backward on Disability Rights and Fair Housing

By Josh Berg At a moment when Minneapolis and the broader Twin Cities are straining under a historic housing shortage, our policy choices should be...

The Litmus Test: Loyalty Above the Law and the Erosion of Minnesota’s Justice

Eight former U.S. Attorneys warn that political loyalty tests are destroying the integrity of Minnesota’s justice system. For decades, the United States Attorney’s Office for...

Judge Refuses to Freeze ICE Enforcement Amid Ongoing Legal Battle

A federal judge on Saturday refused to halt a massive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Minnesota, dealing a blow to state...

US Department of Labor to conduct targeted review of potential fraud in Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance program

Via US Department of Labor WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced it will conduct a targeted review of Minnesota’s Unemployment Insurance Program using an...

Counterpoint: Why Gov. Tim Walz is Running in 2026

By Conrad Lange Zbikowski Recently, Tom Horner wrote in these pages asking why Gov. Tim Walz was running for reelection in 2026. I spoke with...

Why is Tim Walz Running?

Worry among DFLers over Gov. Tim Walz’s candidacy for an unprecedented third consecutive term has gone from whispers to persistent chatter. The level of...

The Accountability Crisis

Autocrats don’t eliminate the institutions. They eliminate accountability. The institutions in a modern autocracy exist as movie sets, false fronts with nothing behind the...

Shakespeare’s Words of Wisdom. You Bet’cha

Destiny is the consequence of our actions. So wrote William Shakespeare in his play “Julius Caesar.”  We aren’t victims of fate. Our circumstances are...

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