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  • News

    April 18, 2012

    Mitt Romney's "creative destruction" at Bain Capital

    Representing everything you hate about capitalism

  • News

    March 14, 2012

    Vikings stadium proposal isn't for the "people"

    Six myths the mainstream media perpetuates

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    University of Minnesota: We're number 68! We're number 68!

    U of M: The M stands for "mediocre." ​The University of Minnesota really is one of the best schools in the country... if you get far enough down the list. The U came in No. 68 on the U.S. News and World Report's influential college rankings list, which was released yesterday. Coming in 68th in any ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Carleton, Macalester rated among nerdiest U.S. campuses

    Carleton College, where nerds rule.​Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth eat your hearts out. Some of the biggest college brains in the country, who go to class just for the sheer delight of exercising their cerebral cortex, can be found at Carelton and Macalester colleges. Rating website Unigo arrive ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Amy Klobuchar gets audacious ink in Elle

    ​How do we look to the rest of America? A certain congresswoman from a certain northern suburb earns the lion's share of national ink these days for comments about anti-American presidents, Acorn plots and socialist-facist evildoers in Congress. She has her fans. And then there's The Audacity ... More >>

  • News

    January 20, 2010

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Marking time amidst the madness

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Fridley kid Klingensmith named Star Tribune's new publisher

    He brings with him two decades of media business experience at Time, Inc., as well as a more recent specialty: media mergers and acquisitions.

  • News

    January 6, 2010

    Steven Levitt on his controversial new book, Super Freakonomics

    Levitt: It's not about partisanship, it's about the truth

  • News

    October 14, 2009

    Paul Thissen is statehouse's smartest, but is he ready to be governor?

    The well-liked brainiac is quickly turning from race's darkhorse to its thoroughbred

  • News

    April 1, 2009

    Minnesota lobbyists rank Twin Cities legislators

    The brightest stars and dimmest hacks in the Capitol

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2006

    Deal or no deal?

    The brightest stars and dimmest hacks in the Capitol

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2006

    4/24: Morning Communique

    The brightest stars and dimmest hacks in the Capitol

  • Arts

    March 29, 2006

    Would a Ventriloquist's Dummy Crack Wise on Mars?

    How to translate a century-old sci-fi novel to a 20-foot stage

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Artists of the Year

    Hurricanes, war, avian flu, locust plagues, that annoying song you couldn't get out of your head. It wasn't the greatest of all possible years. Nor was it halfway decent. But to prove that it wasn't all bad, we asked 29 writers to rave about the ar

  • News

    September 28, 2005

    STNNNG in a Stunner

    Picked to Click XV

  • Arts

    June 1, 2005

    Hip Hop's Lone Ladies Call for Backup

    The B-Girl Be Summit preaches strength in numbers

  • News

    November 5, 2003

    The Uncertainty Principle

    Can theoretical physics save an Iron Range town?

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    The Godfather of "Conceal and Carry"

    Will Minnesota get a new handgun law on the strength of sham science?

  • News

    October 18, 2000

    The Diva of talk

    Too loud, too opinionated, too brash. Few thought Katherine Lanpher could revive Minnesota Public Radio's sagging Midmorning. WRONG!

  • Books

    September 6, 2000

    The Politics of Suffering

    A historian examines who stands to benefit from the history of the Holocaust

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    Money Pit

    Ten years, $200 million, and one heck of a political headache: Minneapolis’s grand plan for neighborhood revitalization enters the home stretch.

  • Music

    March 15, 2000

    Chamber Pop

    Ten years, $200 million, and one heck of a political headache: Minneapolis’s grand plan for neighborhood revitalization enters the home stretch.

  • Books

    February 23, 2000

    Our Lady of Books

    A treasure trove of antiquarian books, and the nun who keeps them from harm's way

  • Books

    November 4, 1998

    Walk Like a Man

    For over a century the YMCA has been teaching men how to be men--and, according to a new book, how to be gay

  • Feature

    November 1, 1998

    A Place You Can Go

    John Gustav-Wrathall unearths the history of same-sex relationships in the early YMCA

  • Feature

    September 1, 1998

    A Genius in the House

    Schools often lack appropriate programs for them. Teachers sometimes resent them. Parents must scramble to keep up with their intellectual needs--or face the increased risk of childhood frustration and depression. Welcome to the world of the "gifted."

  • Books

    March 4, 1998

    William L. Van Deburg: Black Camelot

    Schools often lack appropriate programs for them. Teachers sometimes resent them. Parents must scramble to keep up with their intellectual needs--or face the increased risk of childhood frustration and depression. Welcome to the world of the "gifted."

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    Trendspotting

    How a Minneapolis consulting trio discovered the "iconogasm," and other tales from the trendspotting business.

  • Feature

    February 18, 1998

    The Great Spectator

    Radio Free Chicago: Studs Terkel holds down the microphone at WFMT in 1978.

  • Feature

    November 26, 1997

    Breaking the Culture Trust

    In a new anthology, The Baffler continues its siege on the infotainment state. Now can they champion labor with the same sincerity?

  • Movies

    August 7, 1996

    On the Lame

    In a new anthology, The Baffler continues its siege on the infotainment state. Now can they champion labor with the same sincerity?

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