Opinion
"If you're an immigrant and want to stay in this country, don't be a crook," writes Austin Culp.
Jim Shaw shares the story of a Somali man who was detained by ICE.
Andrew Russell, co-owner of Elko New Market Family Pharmacy in Elko, Minnesota, writes about mounting pressures from pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs.
In 2026, many party insiders are expecting a remarkable drop-off in attendance at the NDGOP state convention, driven by the schism between the far-right populist faction that has captured control of the state party and the traditional Republicans who hold office.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is expunging efforts to promote “understanding and appreciation of diverse lived experiences” from our nation’s parks, monuments and museums.
Covering the cost of school meals would amount to less than 1% of the state's total spending. Are we to believe there's not 1% of waste in state budgets that could be reallocated?
Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in Wolverton, Minnesota.
Matt Evans, who is running for the House in District 25, once described an openly gay lawmaker as a "degenerate clown" and an "alphabet soup creature."
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"Communities can invest in safety without building surveillance infrastructure that treats everyone as a potential suspect," writes Sumudu V. Nagodavithana.
On this Plain Talk, two Democratic legislative candidates from Minot -- including one who could be North Dakota's first lawmaker living with cerebral palsy -- talk about their race.
A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.
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"The best solution for speech is more speech," said Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Does that still work in the AI era?
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar recently met with Minnesota farmers to discuss tariffs, rising costs and legislation aimed at easing trade burdens.
A man who recognized Juneteenth, honored tribes in the Capitol and counts the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library as a top achievement of his political career is now erasing history.
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Vicki Voldal Rosenau of Valley City writes: "Handed obscene amounts of our tax dollars by a feckless Congress, ICE wielded rhetoric appealing to far-right, nationalist demographics as it recruited thousands of new agents."
Kevin D. McCaul writes about comments Interior Secretary Doug Burgum recently made about CO2.
The party’s state convention will be greatly diminished this year as a consequence.
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