After open white nationalist Jeremy Joseph Christian attempted to attack counter-protesters with a bat at a “March for Speech” rally in April 2017, the police confiscated his bat. Less than a month...
There are things I can and can’t say when I write these columns. Every piece of information must be backed up by a credible source. Every vagary must be explained. Multiple rounds of editing ensure that...
Following Attorney General William Barr’s launch of the Task Force on Violent Anti-Government Extremists on June 26, a mixed bag of federal agencies and special units have dogpiled onto the anti-protest...
“Over the last five weeks, there has been a sustained assault on the life and property of civilians, law enforcement officers, government property and revered American monuments such as the Lincoln Memorial....
Content warning: sexual misconduct, harassment
Yelling jokes at indifferent Tinder dates who are just trying to enjoy a drink at the bar is unfortunately a skill that takes years to develop. When I started...
A frenzy of fireworks has been erupting in Minneapolis and in cities across the country every night for the last month. Maybe there’s an upcoming expiration date on the country’s entire arsenal of...
Of all the gripping photos to come out of the Twin Cities these past few weeks, the sites of mutual aid present the most unforgettable imagery. I’ve seen fires before; I have never experienced community...
Two years ago, I tweeted that the commencement ceremony would only be worth four years of tuition if we could each choose a walk up song, like a Major League Baseball player heading up to bat, with our...
In the wake of George Floyd’s death by the agency of the Minneapolis Police Department, monumental protests have assembled in the fight against police violence and white supremacy. As Minnesotans gathered...
Every month, my five roommates and I send our rent as a single check to a man in Wayzata. Two weeks after sending the check, he cashes it. Two weeks! Presumably, he’s our landlord, though none of us...
We are all absolutely and undeniably indebted to one another, every single day, in ways not always visible to us. Before the pandemic, the space between ourselves and our needs were clouded by convenience....
Every day of the last month has felt like the gradual yanking off of a Band-Aid. For Bernie Sanders supporters, the bandage was finally pulled off last week following his campaign suspension. In his candidacy’s...
My mom delivered the news of her diagnosis via text two weeks before Christmas 2019. Breast cancer in both breasts. At that point, the severity of her case was uncertain, and her treatment plan wasn’t...
New security measurements in the public health buildings on campus have generated concerns about “the impact this heightened security presence could have on homeless individuals, marginalized communities...
Newspaper publisher and classic Disney villain MediaNews Group, known by its trade name as Digital First Media, has acquired the assets of 11 local papers in a string of southern Minnesota suburbs. The...
I was initially concerned that writing about the Iowa Caucus a week after it took place would be a done-to-death, trivial column by the time it came out. And now it just won’t end. Not to say that the...
Having spent “more than a dozen hours” interviewing democratic candidates, The Times editorial board graced us with their endorsement: Elizabeth Warren. Or Amy Klobuchar, whichever you prefer. Stylistically,...
Following the news that a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian military commander Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Gen Z channeled existential anxiety into tweets, Tik Toks and memes.
Digital natives, the Selfie...
A fire claimed the lives of five people in the Cedar High Apartments on November 27. The fire originated on the 14th floor of the high-rise, managed by the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority (MPHA),...
According to the Gun Violence Archive, 387 mass shootings have occurred in the United States in 2019. With more shootings than days in a year, media saturated with bloody headlines seems to discourage...
Last Friday Minneapolis police officials announced that they’ve located roughly 1,700 untested rape kits in the department’s backlog that they didn’t know existed. Contrary to a 2015 audit of the...
Rodney Reed has been on Texas’ booming death row for 22 years after an all white jury convicted him of the 1996 murder of Stacy Stites. Reed was scheduled to be executed on Nov. 20 despite a wave of...
St. Paul residents voted to keep their current organized trash collection system on the referendum ballot last Tuesday. The system, instituted in November 2017, assigns specific waste haulers to designated...
For most of my life, I understood American Democracy to be a Gordian knot of compromises and settlements, taking and giving (primarily taking), like diplomatic gymnastics. Politicians and citizens alike...
Riding a Lime scooter is probably the closest I’ll ever get to living out the scene in "Back to The Future Part II" where Marty McFly steals a hoverboard: ultramodern, yet righteously dorky. The "hoverboard’s...
It’s that time of year again: pumpkin spice, bonfires, Gopher tailgates, the College Republican bridge panel getting vandalized. This September marked the fourth consecutive year in which the College...
Most of us have engaged in conversations deflated by the prongs of “whataboutism,” or at least can identify the device when we see it. Recently defined in the Oxford dictionary as “the technique...
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received 18.4 million reports of child sexual abuse material in 2018. As many of the reports contained more than one image or video, the grand total...
Joan Gabel’s formal inauguration last week was punctuated with demonstrations by two workers unions, Teamsters Local 320 and AFSCME Local 3800. The groups indicated that their presence was a result of...
I lost 18 pounds in three months during my sophomore year of college. The somewhat abrupt change in my body worked its way into conversations with old friends and acquaintances I hadn’t seen in a while....
Immersed in the 24-hour news cycle, our own understanding of the world is shaped by the media we choose to view and avoid. Amidst the democratic debates, I’ve seen articles that cover democratic talking...
In the spirit of rush week, I’ve seen a lot of promotions on social media for “Going Greek.” Greek chapters cite a few signature statistics as evidence that joining a Greek organization builds character,...
Note: Another mass killing occurred in the duration of writing and editing this column.
There have been 283 mass shootings in 2019 documented by the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting...
There is no experience comparable to being 14 years old and on Vine during its infancy. Nothing will ever be as candid or funny. I imagine Vine to Millennials and Gen Z is like what Hands Across America...
There is no experience comparable to being 14 years old and on Vine during its infancy. Nothing will ever be as candid or funny. I imagine Vine to Millennials and Gen Z is like what Hands Across America...
Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo requests that 400 officers be added to the Minneapolis Police Department by 2025. Arradondo contends that the current police force, consisting of 888 officers,...
Aziz Ansari’s newest comedy special, Aziz Ansari: Right Now, hit Netflix on July 9th. Ansari has remained out of the public eye since babenet.com published an account of sexual misconduct from a woman...
I initially had trouble articulating my interest in President Donald Trump's grandiose Fourth of July “Salute to America” event. Maybe the event’s timing, one week out of Pride Month, felt like a...
“What would the world look like if every person behaved like you?”
A rhetorical question often posed to young individuals, the golden rule remains customary for many Americans. The beauty of...
Over the past few years, the University of Minnesota campus has endured various small business and neighborhood-staple casualties, leaving behind gravestones of high-rise apartments in their place. When...
When discussing the proposed restrictions on abortion, “pro-choice” and “abortion rights” provide a limited framework for assessing the matter at large. Abortion accessibility is only a slice of...
In response to legislators’ recent advancement of multiple harsh limits on abortions, my social media feed repeatedly blazoned an image reading, “men shouldn’t be making laws about women’s bodies.”...
