Minnesota? Somalis? Nine billion dollars in alleged welfare fraud? To understand what's going on from a distance, it helps to understand basic culture. Minnesota was settled largely by people of Scandinavian and German ancestry. In survey after survey, Minnesota has ranked No. 1 or No. 2 ...
From a concerned Student Editor: For the past week, I have followed the news relating to Benjamin Walby's death and the impending lawsuit against Houghton and Handcock. I have watched news outlets read article after article. The excessive use of force is obvious in the bodycam video; you can ...
We've seen masked government agents roughing people up, shouting obscenities at them, trapping them on freezing cold roofs, smashing their car windows, shooting pastors with pepper balls, shoving women to the ground, separating mothers from their children and killing an unarmed American citizen ...
Renee Good should be alive. The activist, killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, met her end in tragedy. What has happened since, predictably, saw people rush to their tribal corners. ICE "murdered" Good. Good was the villain. Your politics positioned your stance. What got ...
A decade ago, a famous and successful investor told me that "integrity lowers the cost of capital." We were talking about Donald Trump at the time, and this Wall Street wizard was explaining why then-candidate Trump had so much trouble borrowing money from domestic capital markets. His point ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is in a very special category: black, Muslim and a refugee from Somalia. It's a triple-banger, like Karine Jean-Pierre, always touted as black, lesbian and Haitian. Never question their prominence on the merits. It's a born-on-third-base situation in national politics ...