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AIPAC's donations to Angie Craig complicate her Senate campaign
4+ hour, 7+ min ago (1058+ words) WASHINGTON " Democrats are grappling with their support of Israel, with many rejecting campaign money from pro-Israel groups and Rep. Angie Craig is among the lawmakers who have been caught up in the shifting attitudes of her party. Since she first…...
My generation is addicted to social media content
1+ week, 3+ day ago (461+ words) With the recent jury ruling finding Meta and You Tube negligent in designing addictive products that harm young people, we are seeing the recognition of an out-of-hand issue plaguing Gen Z. To see the true impact of addictive social media algorithms…...
The American Indian Movement Patrol combated police brutality
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (620+ words) This content is shared with Minn Post by'MNopedia, the digital encyclopedia created by the'Minnesota Historical Society'and supported by the'Legacy Amendment's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Formed in August of 1968, the American Indian Movement Patrol (AIM Patrol) was a citizens" patrol…...
Are communism and socialism the same?
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (125+ words) Communism and socialism oppose capitalism but are different ideologies, despite the terms sometimes being used interchangeably. Communism: Replacing private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and control of means of production and natural resources. Wealth divided equally, or…...
How mental health care in schools became the norm in Minnesota
7+ mon, 3+ day ago (1046+ words) Editor's note: This is the first of three stories on school-based mental health treatment in Minnesota." The girl keeps moving around the room, alighting briefly before taking out her cellphone and answering a call. When Rogers asks her a question,…...
Bike lane rants just obscure serious traffic safety concerns
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (299+ words) A while ago, I was numbly scrolling through Facebook when I came across a comment that annoyed me. Someone had written this in my local Frogtown Facebook group: "When you're sitting in that long line of traffic on Dale Street…...
Dispute over solutions for homelessness puts thousands at risk
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1411+ words) Betty Allen spent four years in Minnesota living out of her car and bouncing between shelters before moving to El Paso, Texas, to care for her elderly parents during the pandemic. In 2021, they died of COVID a day apart from…...
Rural health care in Minnesota risks becoming a medical wasteland
4+ day, 7+ min ago (539+ words) Minnesota has 95 rural hospitals, but approximately 20 of them are at risk of closing or majorly reducing services. These rural health care facilities are already operating on razor-thin margins, and now looming Medicaid waiver changes threaten to push many past the…...
Fun Home" hits the three Ps," powerful, poignant and purposeful
1+ year, 1+ week ago (549+ words) Fun Home," the musical based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel memoir of the same name, now playing at Theater Latte Da, is a queer coming of age story, but even more than that, it's a story about grief. Spoilers follow,…...
Let's center reproductive justice and bodily autonomy for all people
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (141+ words) Oral contraceptives for women, like the ones pictured above, were first approved by the federal government in 1960. Now, University of Minnesota researchers are working on oral contraceptives for men. As reproductive politics in the United States have become increasingly polarized,…...