Ilhan Omar

Kendall Qualls reflects on how best to influence black communities.

Minneapolis is too important to leave in the hands of its own elected officials.

The only demographic group to support the measure was 'Self-described liberal'

Now they tell us. Three incumbent DFL state legislators who each recently lost the nod for their party’s endorsement suddenly sound more like conservative critics when it comes to allowing…

A recent story in Politco  entitled “Minnesota on the edge: ‘I’ve voted Democrat my whole life. It’s getting tougher,” details how the political leanings of Minnesotans on the Iron Range,…

Jim Morrison once said “I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.” This phrase was spot on this week,…

Minneapolis is too important to leave in the hands of its own elected officials.

Donald Trump’s visit to Minneapolis filled the Target Center with a crowd of 20,000, and left thousands more standing outside waiting in the cold and rain to watch the rally…

We must judge public policies by their effects, not their intentions. 

In 1992 the U.S. sent Freedman as part of an advance team to prepare the way for American troops in Somalia. On Dec. 23, two weeks after the troops had…

Alexis de Tocqueville is properly credited for getting America insightfully right in his legendary Democracy in America in the 1830s.  My goodness, the young Frenchman was brilliantly prescient, but who…

A round-up of the last week’s economic news stories in Minnesota.

The film, "Time for Ilhan"  has been playing at festivals in Minneapolis and is playing at the Walker (the 5th district). The filmmaker has contributed cash to Omar's campaign but…

One would hope that instead of being a pretend “Secretary of Homeland Security”, she would be an ambassador from the Somali community to Minnesotans and the nation, who would like…