Minnesota Lawyer

There’s not one simple reason states rely so much on regressive taxes such as sales taxes, sin taxes and property taxes rather than a progressive income tax.

Whatever is good about the American economy is largely the result of the Hamiltonian developmental tradition.

Aging is hitting Greater Minnesota’s 80 counties first, and hardest

What we've learned so far about the Affordable Care Act is less than you'd think.

Commitment to the principle of free speech has weakened in Western culture.

A new book observes President Obama remains a stranger to many of the ways of Washington and to the other power holders in the nation’s capital.

Perhaps we have stumbled upon a return to politics as work, not as some truncated form of religiosity in secular guise where standing on principle is the be-all and end-all of representative governance.

It sometimes seems Republicans have fewer differences with Democrats than with one another.

While some pessimists are predicting a return to gridlock and dismissing the happy talk as just that, a few important factors are seriously different, and better, this time around.

Hispanic governors and the occasional black member of Congress do represent Republican progress, but they’re no cure for a problem rooted in a sizable faction of Republican voters.