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  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Trayvon Martin was "gang bangin'," says Bradlee Dean

    It seems like everyone has something to say about the Trayvon Martin killing. Last month, Martin, a 17-year-old from Florida, was fatally gunned down by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman. Martin was unarmed, unless you count a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea. Zimmerman is calling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    Kanye West crashes Occupy Wall Street, says nothing, still makes headlines

    ​Kanye West has never been one to let a big, zeitgeist-y moment pass without seizing and babbling narcisistically through it. So it comes as something of a shock that at the Occupy Wall Street protests the other day, he let hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons do all of his talking for him, which in rap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Minnesota gets an F in civil rights history

    ​The Civil Rights Movement was a big thing that happened, like, a really long time ago. Some people were being mean to other people who had darker skin. At least, that's what New York told us.Minnesota is one of 35 (!) states that got an F in the Southern Poverty Law Center's new report on the tea ... More >>

  • News

    June 8, 2011

    Daily Kos: Markos Moulitsas's website changed politics

    Netroots Nation comes to Minneapolis

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Scott Walker wins: Wisconsin Republicans through union-busting bill [UPDATE]

    Sue Peacock/FlickrLet the recall efforts begin.​Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly finally dropped all pretenses about Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting bill having anything to do with balancing the state's budget. Wednesday night, with 14 Democrats still on the lam trying to block a vote, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    DFL Election Party: booze, hope and tears

    Sue Peacock/FlickrLet the recall efforts begin.​Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly finally dropped all pretenses about Gov. Scott Walker's union-busting bill having anything to do with balancing the state's budget. Wednesday night, with 14 Democrats still on the lam trying to block a vote, the ... More >>

  • Feature

    April 9, 2008

    Did James Earl Ray act alone?

    A Minneapolis author helps raise new questions about the King assassination

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2008

    Geraldine Ferraro is a closet racist

    A Minneapolis author helps raise new questions about the King assassination

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Bella Abzug is taking over Maplewood's government!

    A Minneapolis author helps raise new questions about the King assassination

  • Books

    June 13, 2007

    Sibling rivalries battle for attention on the bookshelves this summer

    As the memoir boom winds down, authors are training their sights on sis and bro

  • News

    December 13, 2006

    Get Rich with God

    Pastor Mac Hammond's suburban megachurch preaches heavenly financial rewards in the here and now — if you've got the faith to give till it hurts

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2006

    Record collectors, do you have these Stax albums?

    Pastor Mac Hammond's suburban megachurch preaches heavenly financial rewards in the here and now — if you've got the faith to give till it hurts

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2006

    "Play it real pretty"

    Pastor Mac Hammond's suburban megachurch preaches heavenly financial rewards in the here and now — if you've got the faith to give till it hurts

  • News

    September 21, 2005

    New Orleans: Survivor Stories

    Beyond soundbites: detailed first-hand accounts from people trapped in the city after Katrina--what they did, what they saw, how they stayed alive.

  • Columns

    April 13, 2005

    Force-feeding

    Myth and life and the dark side

  • Arts

    October 13, 2004

    Labor of Love

    Wellstone! Works hard to keep hope alive

  • Arts

    April 2, 2003

    Don't Ask, Don't Tell

    Outward Spiral's Desert Storm love story; Mixed Blood's homeless memoir

  • News

    November 27, 2002

    Spank the Donkey

    Why We Should All Give Up on the Democrats: A Polemical Essay

  • News

    October 30, 2002

    More Wellstone Memories

    Why We Should All Give Up on the Democrats: A Polemical Essay

  • Books

    October 10, 2001

    Left Field

    Joan Campbell's surprising loss leaves two candidates fighting for the Second Ward's liberal base

  • Arts

    September 26, 2001

    Sonic Outlaws

    The second annual edition of “Sound Unseen” highlights the subversive side of music making in the era of media consolidation.

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Off Beat

    The second annual edition of “Sound Unseen” highlights the subversive side of music making in the era of media consolidation.

  • Arts

    October 4, 2000

    Rock around the doc

    U Film's "Sound Unseen" festival projects our mythologies of music onto the screen

  • Arts

    February 16, 2000

    You Down with GOP?

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Books

    October 6, 1999

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Major-Party Status

    Local Libertarians gathered at Mystic Lake Casino to fine-tune their message, play the slots, and practice the Ransberger Pivot

  • Restaurants

    September 1, 1999

    Eat Rich

    Local Libertarians gathered at Mystic Lake Casino to fine-tune their message, play the slots, and practice the Ransberger Pivot

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Is He Nuts?

    Turncoat. Chickenshit. Radical. Minnesota's senior senator has been called a lot of things. But president?

  • Feature

    June 1, 1998

    Out With Clout

    In corporations and churches, in classrooms and capital corridors, these 100 Queers have contributed to the "Good Life" in Minnesota.

  • Feature

    May 6, 1998

    1973 Film

    In corporations and churches, in classrooms and capital corridors, these 100 Queers have contributed to the "Good Life" in Minnesota.

  • News

    March 11, 1998

    Dark Horse

    If he runs for president next year, there's little chance Sen. Paul Wellstone will win. But he just might nudge the Democrats slightly to the left.

  • Movies

    November 19, 1997

    Making It Plain

    Etched in Memory: 4 Little Girls.

  • Feature

    October 29, 1997

    Union Made

    Laborers' union members, mostly low-paid black and Hispanic workers, financed their president's White House visits while the Justice Department quashed a mob investigation.

  • Feature

    October 15, 1997

    TV is [Expletive Deleted]

    "Prabruabalohbahbruoh": T.V. reformer Bill Cosby shakes his pudding pop for a room of admiring Lutherans.

  • Feature

    March 5, 1997

    Gored

    "Prabruabalohbahbruoh": T.V. reformer Bill Cosby shakes his pudding pop for a room of admiring Lutherans.

  • News

    February 5, 1997

    Shell, Texaco, and the Bonds of Oily Wedlock

    "Prabruabalohbahbruoh": T.V. reformer Bill Cosby shakes his pudding pop for a room of admiring Lutherans.

  • Feature

    December 25, 1996

    The rumor that won't go away.

    Wellstone for President?

  • News

    December 4, 1996

    THE OTHER VOTE

    There is no place to mark "none of the above" on our election ballots.

  • Feature

    November 20, 1996

    Building Team 2000

    There is no place to mark "none of the above" on our election ballots.

  • Feature

    October 30, 1996

    No Mandate

    There is no place to mark "none of the above" on our election ballots.

  • Movies

    October 23, 1996

    All Aboard

    There is no place to mark "none of the above" on our election ballots.

  • News

    October 2, 1996

    WAKING UP WITH THE HOUSE ON FIRE

    A conversation with psychologist James Hillman-- about kids, shrinks, mythology, and death.

  • News

    September 25, 1996

    Eating Ross

    The Clintonites pulled a neat bit of political flummery last week when they connived

  • News

    September 4, 1996

    CLINTON WATCH

    The Politics of Personality

  • News

    September 4, 1996

    Chicago Then and Now

    Notes on the 1968 and 1996 conventions

  • News

    August 28, 1996

    CLINTON WATCH

    Bad King Bill

  • Books

    July 24, 1996

    Black Humor and Gray Matter

    Bad King Bill

  • Feature

    March 13, 1996

    The Fifth Horseman

    On Pat Buchanan and the man in the wings

  • Feature

    January 3, 1996

    House of Cards

    A conversation about the far-from-settled presidential field.

  • Feature

    October 18, 1995

    Farrakhan's Moment

    Where do we go from October 16?

  • News

    April 3, 1991

    The Puckett Principle

    Beneath his easy, cheerful veneer, Kirby Puckett has always been obsessed with learning the rules of the game--on and off the field

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