You're likely to understand this sentence: "The St. Louis Rams beat the Minnesota Vikings 48-17 at home in a battle of division leaders on Sunday." This sentence, maybe not so much: "Arsenal and Fulham...

My Thanksgiving Day journey began Nov. 26 in the frozenness of Minneapolis. The drive does not really get interesting until south of Rochester, Minn., when I leave behind the patchwork of suburbs and small...

Shannon Fiecke's Monday column, "Steel tariffs are U.S. protectionism at its worst," misapplies basic principles of economics. Although Fiecke is correct that the tariffs imposed by the Bush administration...

If anyone wants to learn how to profit from college students, they should register for Jefferson Commons 1001. The "unique student housing environment" on Huron Boulevard is anything but satisfactory....

Poor Robert Zoellick. After almost a decade of hard work on the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations, the U.S. trade representative had no choice two weeks ago but to spin what was obviously an...

The six-year term of Mexico's President Vicente Fox reached its halfway point Monday. During his three years in office, Fox has struggled to achieve his most significant goal - improved relations with...

You bastards get out of my house!" "I'm going to kill you." I'd hear him through the floorboards of my St. Paul apartment. We moved in Sept. 1. For me and my two roommates, it was our first time living...

There is a new kind of bigotry in town. It is flaunted by our city leaders and directed at the majority of people reading these words. St. Paul City Council member Jay Benanav, 4th Ward, is one of the...

President George W. Bush and Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., all made visits to Iraq last week. The trips were quick, in part because of safety risks, including a difficult "corkscrew"...

When one thinks of Somalia, standard pictures come to mind. An utter black hole where a government, albeit a predatory one, used to be. Chaos, clan warfare and the massacre of international peacekeepers....