The author Lidiana Rosli next to Democratic candidate for the Hennepin County Commissioner position, Blong Yang. A chance encounter on my plane ride from Amsterdam to Minneapolis brought me to a home belonging to a supporter of Council Member Blong Yang on...
President Donald Trump has seemed to focus on killing off Obama’s key legacy achievements in the first nine months of his presidency. This hostile act is undermining the global image and liberal democracy of the United States. Trump pulled out of the 2015...
“Bad story selection – or in not so-PC terms – dumb, lazy noise.” That’s how Peter Hamby, the head of news at Snapchat, summed up the biggest threat to the media industry at a panel discussion at the Texas Tribune festival on September 23. “The homogeneity of news is...
So, why are you here?” asked John Ullmann, a renowned former editor at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Walking around the classroom in his hooded top, with a frown on his face and an angry look, he was summing up all our answers with the same phrase: “Not good...
The number of Somalis in St. Paul and Minneapolis has been rising over the years. A local shopping area in Minneapolis is named ‘Little Mogadishu’. Here, locals mingle irrespective of race and creed. It’s a closely knit community. There are an estimated 25,000...