Cheating, stealing and lying to make a profit is as American as apple pie, and so is misogyny, xenophobia, Islamophobia...

Took their slaves, but not their refugees “The very country to which many of our people were taken as slaves...

Protests have taken place in cities across the nation, including the Twin Cities, in opposition to Trump's election. Donald Trump’s...

Haiti needs help and should be helped — period. Some claim the country is cursed. It has been but not...

No one expected the unfair, unjust, immoral police system we live under to discipline (even in liberal and supposedly progressive...

  University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler struck a blow for intolerance when he defended as free speech the campus...

The liberal mainstream media was falling all over themselves denigrating the scary conservative wing of the U.S. one-party system, which...

Baton Rouge/Dallas vigilantism is endemic to our culture Yet another instance of “despicable” violence in the U.S. and yet another...

  Justice Sotomayor details ramifications of the decision While many of us were being entertained by LeBron James, the election...

In Minneapolis on June 3, the U.S. government concluded its “show trial” by convicting three young Somali men, Guled Omar,...

But there’s lots of hypocrisy Did U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger actually say his “heart goes out” to the Clark family,...

  “This is not a political trial” said Judge Michael Davis before the trials of three Somali men Abdirahman Daud, Mohamed...

If you were in doubt about the Star Tribune’s objectivity or whose side they are on, the Jamar Clark case...

President Obama’s visit to Cuba, and the recent efforts to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba, give us a...

In a show that added insult to injury, Freeman’s announcement was pure political theater. He could have easily gotten up...

While that is a step presumably in the right direction and it is a public acknowledgement that the power structure...

“Watch out for those Republicans! Trump is refusing to condemn the KKK,” the Democrats (in Minnesota they are DFL) are...

Recently Madeline Albright, the former Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, said that “there is a special place in...

Hollywood’s struggle to do right by Black people has been going on since its inception. Its continued struggle to include...

When I first learned about the lead poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, I checked two things: the percentage of poverty...