United Nations

Urban cavers fight over turf and free speech

How an exploration dispute between academic Greg Brick and Action Squad's Gabe Carlson became a vicious legal battle

The 10 weirdest members of Congress

Meet the buffoons who are ruining the United States

Behind Laos's yellow rain and tears

A controversial Radiolab episode opens old wounds and raises countless questions for Minnesota's Hmong

Shane Bauer: Out of Iran, investigating America's prison system

For two hellish years, the Iranian government held Shane Bauer prisoner on suspicion of being a spy. The worst part, he now says, was the four months he spent in a solitary cell. But since his release, Bauer has been surprised to discover even more troubling prison practices happening on American so ... More >>

Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal's release delayed for Iranian judge's vacation

Shane Bauer would be a free man, but someone has to finish his vacation first.​The plight of Shane Bauer, a Minnesota native and freelance foreign correspondent, and his friend Josh Fattal, has captivated and outraged Americans. Apparently, the Iranian authorities responsible for jailing, and perh ... More >>

Queer in the Twin Cities

Eight important local LGBT leaders

Lucas Baiano makes Tim Pawlenty's over-the-top campaign ads

Lucas Baiano turned T-Paw into an action hero.​Every time we see another of those hilariously over-the-top campaign ads for Tim Pawlenty, with their pulsating soundtracks, cut-away shots, weird angles, and contrived lighting, we ask ourselves the same question: Who made those things? Lucas Baiano ... More >>

Jason Meyer and his get-rich gold scam

Rochester man promised gold mines and made off with the cash

Fair-y Tales

Guantanamo's final days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp and Jihad looms

Soderbergh presents two Che Guevara films at the Uptown

Che emphasizes the process without being particularly partisan

Minneapolis Somali community facing dark web of murders

They came to escape civil war, so why are they killing each other in the streets?

Tom Mischke still pioneering format-free radio

The man behind radio's most unpredictable show says it's just real life

Anti-Semitism Vs. Criticizing Israel

Explorer Returns to the Arctic to Take On Global Warming

The story of true ice man Will Steger, from our Winter Guide

One Man's Nightmare; Most Men's Dream

Running Man

Keith Ellison, the DFL's endorsee for Congress in the Fifth District, has spent the summer countering attacks from Republicans—and Democrats. What made him everyone's favorite target?

Why He Fights

Documentarian Eugene Jarecki discusses his latest weapon of mass instruction

"You can't do all of it by yourself."

Obituaries

Former President George W. Bush Dead at 72

9/11-Another Minnesota Connection?

Nancy Hanlon says she met and talked with one of the 9/11 hijackers in a Rochester, Minnesota bar just weeks before the attack. Is it true? There's no telling for sure. Is her story plausible? Yes.

George W. Bush and the Real State of the Union

How's the president doing?

The Bull Fight

James "Brazen Bull" Nora wanted his daughter to publish his collection of poetry on mid-list press. She refused. Now, both are engaged in a stubborn legal showdown.

All the President's Lies

In recent weeks, the press and some Democrats have finally taken up a critical White House deception about Iraq and uranium. What took them so long? And what about all the other lies?

The Quiet Man

On the eve of his last American tour, Marcel Marceau emerges as one sweet-talking mime

And The War Came

Planet America: Our world and welcome to it

Protest and Survive

Novelist and historian Tariq Ali on the war and the antiwar movement

Far Away, So Close

With lusty seniors in Rio and hard-driving cabbies in Lima, filmmaker Heddy Honigmann makes her home in the world

N'Dour Endures

A world-music star from 1970s Senegal finds his place in the age of hip hop

The Party Crasher

No one's giving much thought to Ralph Nader's running mate. But it has never been a good idea to underestimate Winona LaDuke.

Scene Not Heard

Computer wizards leave their bedrooms, rappers reach the stage, and the Mason Jennings Band creates the bar buzz of the decade. In the ninth annual City Pages New Music Poll, 60 local music fans pick the bands that made the biggest noise.

Ground Troops

From its South Minneapolis headquarters, the American Refugee Committee sorts out the logistics of relief

Reeling In the Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival

Ninety-three films, three projectors, and the whole wide world

Braided Lives

From brutality, death, survival, and triumph, a family emerges

Keeper of the Beat

From playing for the Pope to inaugurating The Body, Guinean-born master drummer Fodé Bangoura is both international legend and local discovery

Chemical Imbalance

How Paul Thelander turned radios into gold, wind into spirits, and chemicals into a cocktail that might have saved the world.

Fly Away Home

Having survived Cambodia's killing fields, poet U Sam Oeur writes as a witness to the "Kingdom of Hell"

The Hot Zone

Global warming isn't just a theory anymore. Now the arguments are about how dire the changes in world climate will be, how soon they'll come--and what, if anything, can be done to moderate them.

LEFT FOR DEAD

Nguyen Cao Son and his fellow South Vietnamese soldiers were part of a secret U.S. spy commando force--so secret, in fact, that the American government turned its back and let him spend 14 years in North Vietnamese prison camps.

The Big Tent Folds

Portraits of two Republican caucuses--one suburban, one urban-- underline the growing polarities in GOP ranks.

Collateral Damage

Candice Roark was a healthy 20-year-old when she was sent to the Persian Gulf in 1991. Now she has a pacemaker, fainting spells, and a lot of unanswered questions about what made her and thousands of other soldiers sick.