Minneapolis teachers walked off the job today: Teachers in Minneapolis are set to go on strike on Tuesday morning, shuttering classrooms for about 30,000 public school students. For weeks, the teacher
Good move here on the part of the Biden administration and let’s hope there’s a way to move this toward permanence so that the next Republican administration can’t just undo these pr
I’ve been chewing over this long profile of what happens when you push white liberals to participate in desegregation efforts, in this case in Minneapolis. Oh, it’s typical. A whole lot of
Biden made a big deal about respecting indigenous rights around pipelines and other environmental justice issues where Native communities have been subjected to repeated violence and violations of the
Surly is one of the largest and most prominent microbreweries in Minnesota. And like so many of these places, the owners are as reactionary anti-union as Jay Gould or Henry Ford could dream of being.
The issues around police unions are more complicated than those who call to abolish them want to believe. But that doesn’t mean that other unions have to have any respect for them or defend them
“Minnesota Nice” also means Minnesota White and when that whiteness gets challenged, the nice goes away. Right now, right-wing whites in Minnesota are freaking out over new interpretations
I am going to be in the Twin Cities on Thursday for a talk and discussion about the book. The Twin Cities DSA is hosting it so it will be an interesting conversation between the different interest gro