MINNEAPOLIS — They can’t seem to believe it. Federal officials, talking about Minneapolis all over the place, keep stressing just how unusual this resistance is.

They’ve never seen anything like it.

“In one city — in one city we have this outrage and this powder keg happening," Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said recently on ...Read more

On Saturday, federal agents fatally shot Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse and U.S. citizen, as he helped another protester whom agents had pushed to the ground. Trump administration officials, trotting out the odious narrative tropes used to justify lethal extrajudicial killings, reflexively defended the agents’ actions, ...Read more

Wave the red flags when socialist Bernie Sanders and progressive Elizabeth Warren are on the same page as Republican Donald Trump. And so it is with the misguided push to micromanage the credit card industry.

This month, President Donald Trump announced that he backs a proposal to impose a temporary (read: permanent) 10% ceiling on credit card ...Read more

Words matter.

With his nonstop litany of lies and insults, President Donald Trump appears to believe no one will remember what he said yesterday or last week (perhaps he can’t recall, either).

Yet, just as Americans won’t forget how Kristi Noem smeared Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti as a “domestic terrorist,” European allies won’t ...Read more

Not even the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension knows the names of the federal immigration agents who wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and fired 10 times at him on Jan. 24.

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have so far refused to cooperate with state investigators and release evidence crucial to ...Read more

Republican elected officials are choosing their words carefully, but many are starting to realize the federal government’s paramilitary crackdown on Minnesota has put them in political peril. Even President Donald Trump himself is showing belated signs of pulling back.

But Republicans will need to go much further if they’re going to stop ...Read more

Chicago talks a lot about affordability. But for families with young kids, there is one cost that overwhelms almost everything else — child care.

I know this firsthand. Like so many parents in this city, my family has paid day care bills that rival a mortgage payment. Every month, those costs force real tradeoffs: savings or stability, career...Read more

The killing of 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by federal agents underscores a growing crisis facing the White House: Its reckless deportation campaign has spun out of control. If congressional Republicans don’t start holding the administration to account, they’ll be putting public safety at even greater risk — ...Read more

Even if you didn’t go to college in Illinois, odds are you’ve benefited from someone who got a degree from one of our universities.

Maybe your Northwestern cardiologist helped you get back on your feet. Or a University of Illinois-trained engineer built the bridge you cross every day to get to work. Or a union electrician who got your ...Read more

I’ve spent more than two-thirds of a century (since 1958) at American universities. Never in all those years has their earned and deserved reputation as the best in the world suffered bigger threats than today.

U.S. colleges and universities not only have behaved abysmally, but they’re now paying a high price for showing contempt for the ...Read more

“Fraud” doesn’t begin to cover it. Under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, Minnesota has become the hub of an exorbitant federal fund money-laundering scheme.

Updated reports reflect nearly 100 individuals, the majority being Somali immigrants, have been charged for involvement in a fraud scandal that cost American taxpayers billions. The silver ...Read more

More than 60 leaders of some of Minnesota’s largest companies broke their silence over ICE’s immigration crackdown that’s wreaking havoc in Minneapolis, releasing a public letter over the weekend calling for “an immediate deescalation of tensions.”

CEOs, you’re getting warmer.

The letter did not once mention ICE, nor Renee Good and...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Katie Porter's still standing, which is saying something.

The last time a significant number of people tuned into California's low-frequency race for governor was in October, when Porter's political obituary was being written in bold type.

Immediately after a snappish and off-putting TV interview, Porter showed up in a years...Read more

When Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City’s mayor on Jan. 1 at age 34, it became impossible to ignore that a new generation is no longer waiting its turn. That new generation is now governing. America is entering an era where “young leadership” is no longer a novelty, but a pipeline.

Our research at Future Caucus found a 170% ...Read more

American higher education can and must be reformed. If we are genuinely serious about restoring higher education to its proper function, it will look little like it does today.

First, we need to restore full-time faculty to their role as teachers, and restore “general education” to the place it once held in molding adolescents into adults ...Read more

It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently.

Across the country, rising electricity prices are a major concern. This is especially true for states in the Northeast and California. In New Jersey, some residents faced cost increases of around 20 percent last year. Nationally, December power...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Believe your eyes.

That’s what prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said in his opening statement on March 29, 2021, to the jurors who would decide whether Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.

“You can believe your eyes, that it’s homicide, it’s murder,” said Blackwell, now a U.S. District Court judge....Read more

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.

Terms like “hate speech” and “ racism�...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently proposed 2026-27 state budget included a pleasant surprise: a deficit of about $3 billion — significantly less than analysts had estimated. But when it comes to California state budgets, good news rarely lasts. Newsom’s own estimates warn that the deficit may reach $22 billion in the following fiscal year.

It ...Read more