Minnesota’s debate about red flag gun safety laws has focused on DFL politics, gun owner rights and nuanced legal arguments about due process. There’s far too little attention on what matters: people killed by gun violence or those using guns to take their own life. In Minnesota, 70% of ...

We’re confused about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ position on guns. He talks a lot about his ardent support for the Second Amendment. He has said repeatedly that he believes putting guns into the hands of law-abiding people would make us all safer. He backs the familiar talking point that a good guy ...

A week on, amid the tears of the bereaved and the abandoned, the unbearable scale of the death and destruction has become horrifyingly clear. At least 35,000 people have died as a result of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, making this one of the worst natural disasters of the century. ...

While there are impasses over many issues among Native American nations, the United States government and the states, the top priority at the moment must be to reduce the unbelievable level of crime on Native American reservations. The U.S. government has treaty and trust obligations to ...

Green energy ideas Thumbs Up: New Ulm hosted a group discussion this week of local officials and a visiting German authority on the topic of converting to green energy. With the state committed now to cleaning things up by 2040, it is not too early for the city to get some ideas on what to ...

When President Biden gave the order Sunday for a fighter jet to shoot down an unidentified aerial object over Lake Huron, aides said he did so out of an abundance of caution and on the recommendation of military commanders, amid concern it was floating at altitudes that might jeopardize ...