If DFL leaders on Saturday back language that would put the party officially against a proposed copper-nickel mine near Hoyt Lakes, it could drive away longtime, pro-mining Democrats. Can the DFL win the 2018 governor’s race without them? Read more →
Donald Trump’s penchant for communicating via Twitter while ignoring mainstream media is rewriting all the rules.
Take this question, for example. If a president has chosen Twitter to communicate with the people he represents, is it ethical to ‘block’ people from following him and, thus, hearing what he has to say? Read more →
Hampshire College is putting the American flag back on the flag pole. The school in western Massachusetts pulled it down three weeks ago after it was set on fire in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. “I’ve received many e-mails, a lot of them extremely unpleasant,” Hampshire College president Jonathan Lash said. You Read more →
Amy Koch tells The Daily Beast today that she’s spent a lot of time in the last few years reading about the kind of political scandals involving affairs to see who tends to come back from these sorts of things and who doesn’t. Women usually don’t. Read more →
But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the presidential campaign, if you call someone a duck online, whether it quacks or not is irrelevant. What Ellison is facing is the next phase of the ‘lock her up’ mentality that has taken control of the nation’s political debate and the media that tries to cover it. Read more →
The Twin Cities missed out on a Boston designer’s idea to let people offer some positivity after this month’s election, but now it’s migrating to online. Read more →
Trump is appointing Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., as the new secretary of health and human services, the perfect person, Vox says, to roll back health care coverage, an issue Democrats were too afraid to defend in the recent election.
Price is one of the few Republicans in Congress who actually has proposed health care legislation in the post-Obamacare world. Read more →
At national and local conventions, you never heard his name uttered; he rarely appeared in person to schmooze with the powerbrokers of the DFL.
I often wondered why he was in the DFL at all. Read more →
Eventually, every tradition has to die and when President Obama pardoned a turkey at Thanksgiving today, one did.
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Vi Hart, like most other homo sapiens, has a theory about the election, which she features in her latest video. We are divided in the United States, of course, but it’s mostly by age, the Internet math star calculates. Read more →
It’s like old times in Thief River Falls where a dispute over a mark on a ballot recalls the statewide recount in the Minnesota Senate race years ago. Read more →
The Times dropped in on a Milwaukee neighborhood to find out whether people who didn’t vote now wish they had. It found that many people are just fine with sitting the election out. Read more →
If you’re looking for a U.S. senator most likely to fight the policy of Donald Trump, Sen. Amy Klobuchar shouldn’t be in the picture, an analysis by FiveThirtyEight alleges today.
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In modern times, Obama trails only Bill Clinton for popularity at this stage of their presidencies. Obama is also tied with Ronald Reagan.
Not mentioned in the poll analysis why we tend to like presidents more when they’re about to leave office. Read more →
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