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The Luftwaffe’s farmers in southern Minnesota
During a visit this week to southern Minnesota’s New Ulm, the World War II junkie in me was thrilled to chance upon a fascinating nugget of history from this city of barely 14,000. Flandrau State Park, 2 miles from our hotel, was developed as part of a federally...
Islamophobia: is a global awakening on racism already overdue?
The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 left an indelible impact on the community of Black Americans, not to mention his family, who will collectively remember the bitter episode with trauma and resentment. But the ensuing Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, and the...
No-knock warrants has racist roots, academic says
The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke will not be charged. But the fact remains that the police got the wrong guy on Feb. 2 when they used a no-knock search warrant as part of an investigation and during the search in St. Paul, Minn., killed...
Is it possible the war in Ukraine is bad for nuclear non-proliferation?
Allusions to the use of nuclear weapons at the very beginning of the war in Ukraine worried people in Eastern Europe. People like my grandmother in Bulgaria who still remembers what happened at Chernobyl. Is it really possible for the situation to escalate in this...