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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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We can’t shop our way to reclamation.

Opinion: Girlhood can’t be wrapped up in a little bow

by Vivian Wilson
Published December 6, 2024

Why is it that womanhood is so inextricably linked to consumption? Recent trends have shown a general shift toward prolonging girlhood and, in some ways, infantilizing women through relentless insistence...

Ice, snow and leafless trees make the winter season uniquely beautiful.

Opinion: Stop whining about winter

by Leo Huppke
Published December 4, 2024

I trudge down the snow-covered sidewalk on University Avenue, the cold wind cutting like a knife across my face. Icicles are forming on the rims of my glasses. The lenses have fogged up to the point where...

The core ideas of socialism are not as radical as people make them out to be.

Opinion: America is already socialist

by Jasmine Shackleford
Published December 4, 2024

The United States is traditionally considered the antithesis of socialism.For decades, our country has represented free market capitalism at its brightest — starkly contrasting our perceptions of...

Opinion: The wisdom of winter

Opinion: The wisdom of winter

by Riley Stern
Published December 2, 2024

It is officially December, meaning we have unofficially entered our winter months. Between single-digit or subzero temperatures, slim amounts of daylight, and icy sidewalks, it can feel like there is little...

Our impulse to self-categorize is not wrong.

Opinion: We’re looking for ourselves in all the wrong places

by Vivian Wilson
Published December 1, 2024

It’s fun to learn what type of person you are. Personality tests and other pop cultural psychological categorizations like learning styles are marketed as tools meant to unlock a greater understanding...

Trump’s cabinet and staff picks shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Opinion: A cabinet of chaos

by Wren Warne-Jacobsen
Published December 1, 2024

If you were casting the roles of America’s next great reality TV show, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet and staff picks would guarantee multiple seasons of drama and intrigue. When you consider...

With unpasteurized milk and fluoride-free water prevailing, this turkey-centric season has become truly American.

Satire: I’m thankful for Trump, liberty and justice for all

by Leo Huppke
Published November 27, 2024

It’s Thanksgiving Day, 2026.After nearly two years under the rule of Supreme Leader Donald Trump, the United States of America has risen from the ashes of its former self, free from the tyrannical...

Students weigh in on why community is important, especially in winter and the wake of the election.

Opinion: We need each other now more than ever

by Riley Stern
Published November 27, 2024

This time of year, the air feels heavier. Midterms and deadlines are piling up, the temperature is dropping and it is getting dark earlier and earlier. This year particularly, November was marked...

We’re reinforcing strict standards to cope with post-covid ambiguity.

Opinion: Why thin is in again

by Vivian Wilson
Published November 23, 2024

As we’re acclimating to a post-pandemic world, we’re reverting to old body standards in an effort to regain normalcy. This comes as part of an effort to cope with the harsh readjustment as we attempt...

It's easy to dismiss concrete architecture as ugly, but brutalism has genuine aesthetic value.

Opinion: The beauty of brutalism

by Leo Huppke
Published November 21, 2024

From sidewalks to highways to entire buildings, concrete covers our city. It’s cold, uncomfortable to sit on and dull in color.Still, concrete is beautiful.My love for this cementitious building...

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