Fidel Castro

Minnesota Cuban Film Festival

Michele Bachmann's five most regrettable expenses

​Michele Bachmann's campaign is fading fast. If you squint, it disappears completely.That's partly because Bachmann's poll numbers have moved from the basement to the underground bunker. And it doesn't help that her staffers are beginning to pack up and move away for greener, saner pastures. But, ... More >>

Michele Bachmann warns of the Hezbollah Cuban Missile Crisis that isn't happening

Michele Bachmann is here to warn you about Cuba, Hezbollah, and everything else.​Michele Bachmann is plunging deeper and deeper into the informational abyss these days, pulling out whatever kind of fact-like thing she stumbles on and throwing it at her wide-eyed audiences, which grow smaller and l ... More >>

Rep. Tom Hackbarth compares unions to Fidel Castro and Hitler in e-mail

Rep. Tom Hackbarth somehow drags Hitler and Castro into debate about Minnesota's budget.​Representative Tom Hackbarth really knows how to start trouble for himself. First it was lurking in an abortion clinic parking lot with a gun. Now this. Late last week, Hackbarth got an email from Robin S ... More >>

Grinderman, John Mellencamp, the Suburbs, and more

Rep. Tom Hackbarth somehow drags Hitler and Castro into debate about Minnesota's budget.​Representative Tom Hackbarth really knows how to start trouble for himself. First it was lurking in an abortion clinic parking lot with a gun. Now this. Late last week, Hackbarth got an email from Robin S ... More >>

Os Mutantes

Rep. Tom Hackbarth somehow drags Hitler and Castro into debate about Minnesota's budget.​Representative Tom Hackbarth really knows how to start trouble for himself. First it was lurking in an abortion clinic parking lot with a gun. Now this. Late last week, Hackbarth got an email from Robin S ... More >>

Jamie Lidell, Ra Ra Riot and more

Rep. Tom Hackbarth somehow drags Hitler and Castro into debate about Minnesota's budget.​Representative Tom Hackbarth really knows how to start trouble for himself. First it was lurking in an abortion clinic parking lot with a gun. Now this. Late last week, Hackbarth got an email from Robin S ... More >>

JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys

Rep. Tom Hackbarth somehow drags Hitler and Castro into debate about Minnesota's budget.​Representative Tom Hackbarth really knows how to start trouble for himself. First it was lurking in an abortion clinic parking lot with a gun. Now this. Late last week, Hackbarth got an email from Robin S ... More >>

Odd Missive: Hugo Chavez serenades Hillary Clinton

Hugo Chavez is known, much like Fidel Castro, for his lengthy and frequent polemics in the state-controlled media. Where Fidel employed newspaper editorials, Chavez hosts the weekly Aló Presidente, his television show that regularly broadcasts for five hours or more, rhetorical filibusters of st ... More >>

MSPIFF: Reviews of the rest

Il Divo glitters among duller bulbs like The Girl From Monaco, Just Another Love Story

Profile in cojones

Top Pentagon lawyer Alberto Mora risked his career arguing against Guantánamo abuses. Now he's an Obama man.

Guantanamo's final days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp and Jihad looms

Bachmann says Franken stuffing ballot box, anti-American comments urban legend

Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on FOX's Hannity & Colmes last night to spew some more great quotes to get everyone riled up. Sh ... More >>

3/9 Morning Communiqué

Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on FOX's Hannity & Colmes last night to spew some more great quotes to get everyone riled up. Sh ... More >>

1/30 Morning Communiqué

Rep. Michele Bachmann appeared on FOX's Hannity & Colmes last night to spew some more great quotes to get everyone riled up. Sh ... More >>

The Shelf Life of Socialism

Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

Desmond Dekker Came First

Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

Free Will Astrology

Inside a Leninist bookstore in West St. Paul, a familiar refrain: What is to be done?

The Big Chill

Documentaries reach middle age at the Sundance Film Festival

The Body

The Broadway musical Jesse Ventura never wanted you to hear

Four More Years

Career advice for our lamest duck

Before the Campus Burned

On the eve of the U of M's hockey championship, Castro came calling

Cuba Libre

For 53 years, the Havana ballet company of Alicia Alonso has felt free to create an original form of classical dance

Mala Vista Antisocial Club

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Dirty Havana Trilogy wallows in the seediness of Castro's Cuba

Suddenly Saddam

It should be remembered that the first plant Saddam used to make chemical weapons was built by the American multinational Bechtel with money supplied by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

It should be remembered that the first plant Saddam used to make chemical weapons was built by the American multinational Bechtel with money supplied by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Clinton and the Cuban Fixer

It should be remembered that the first plant Saddam used to make chemical weapons was built by the American multinational Bechtel with money supplied by the U.S. Agriculture Department.