Opinion

Light rail transit is a public health investment we need

Throughout Donald Trump’s second term, when he’s sent armed, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into cities, locals have tried to resist by organizing neighborhood watches, both to warn people that agents are coming and to document the arrests they make. Minneapolis, where last week ICE launched what its acting director called the “largest immigration operation ever,” was no different.

In the days since the Trump administration has doubled down on its beef with U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, announcing plans to demote the retired Navy captain for reminding members of the military that they must refuse illegal orders, Kelly has done what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth probably hoped he wouldn’t: keep talking.

Baumgartner complicit on Venezuela

It’s been a bad year for the isolationist right. From Tehran to Caracas, President Donald Trump is flexing U.S. military might on the world stage. This clearly is not the foreign policy they expected when Trump returned to the White House.

Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit of self-flattery. The truth is that as a country we have often found one reason or another to let the powerful escape the consequences of their actions.

Killing sea lions won’t save salmon. Fixing rivers will.

There are good reasons to celebrate the downfall of the tyrant Nicolás Maduro, as so many Venezuelan exiles did when they heard the news Saturday morning. Not among those reasons: An America that seizes Venezuela’s oil assets while keeping what’s left of Maduro’s odious regime in place.

Some context regarding Washington’s eviction moratorium

I watched the video of a mother being gunned down in her car by federal agents on a residential Minneapolis street and was told by my government to believe she was a domestic terrorist.