Artists we lost last year — in their own words
Filmmaker David Lynch (Sara Hirakawa/The New York Times) However their lives began, the creative figures who died this year soon enough made their way to...
Eviction filings may reach statewide record in 2025
On a recent Friday in late November, Eric Hauge spotted a wave of new eviction filings across Minnesota, many but not all of them related...
Abby McCloskey: What’s worse than cherry-picked government data? None at all
It was hard to know what to believe this past year. In the old days, there were conspiracies about the moon landing. These days, it...
Adam Minter: American fans aren’t enough for US sports anymore
American sports leagues treated global expansion as an aspiration for decades, but it was something to pursue only when convenient — and often without much...
St. Paul Fire Chief Butch Inks departs with wellness message for colleagues
The sound of bagpipes still makes Butch Inks feel sick to his stomach. It brings him back to seven funerals of active-duty firefighters when he...
Erwin Chemerinsky: The Supreme Court finally pushed back against Trump
In one of its most consequential rulings of the year, just before breaking for the holidays the Supreme Court held that President Donald Trump acted...