Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Requiem for a Special Session: Why It Never Had a Chance to Succeed and the Next One will probably Fail too

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Why did the Minnesota Legislative Special session fail to produce police reform, a bonding bill, a Covid-19 bill, and more? That is the ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

George Floyd and the Final Fracturing of the Democratic Party, Labor, and Civil Rights Coalition

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            George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis is not simply about the death of one Black man. His death also ki...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Lesson of George Floyd: It’s Time to Put the Minneapolis Police Department Under State Control

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Minneapolis has a police problem.  It has a race problem.  We have known both of those facts for years.  The question is the cause and wh...
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The Case Against Klobuchar: Why She Should not be Biden’s Vice-Presidential Pick

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            If Joe Biden and the Democratic Party wants to beat Donald Trump this fall selecting Amy Klobuchar as the vice-presidential...

There’s no right to vote by mail. New lawsuits could change that

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My latest appeared in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage on May 27, 2020. Do Americans have a right to vote by mail in a pandemic? Y...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Trump is not the Pope and it's not the Middle Ages Anymore

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             President Trump orders governors to open up the churches.  Churches defy governors and seek to open.  Someone needs to remi...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Covid 19 and Minnesota 2020 Legislative Session: How it changed everything and nothing

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Covid-19 changed everything and nothing in the 2020 Minnesota Legislative session.  The state entered the session with a partisanly-divided...