Minnesota Lawyer

As the coach in the locker room says to the team before the big game, it’s “gut check” time. Translation: Are you mentally prepared for the game?

On April 19, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez – setting the stage for what could be a landmark decision further defining the extent to which religious groups have a right to be exempt from government nondiscrimination policies.

Headlines — ironically, given this subject — have proclaimed for some time that newspapers in the United States are dying; headlines have documented bankruptcy filings by companies that own large news groups, and have noted thousands of lost newsroom jobs.

I've been asked: why trust markets to provide health care when they just don't work fairly? Just look at the Wall Street meltdown if you have any remaining doubts about the efficacy of markets to serve the common good, the counter argument went. There is a point to this objection to reliance on markets, but not a fully persuasive one to me.

Get ready for that twice yearly ritual, the changing of the clocks. Yes, this Sunday, Americans will endure another unnecessary inconvenience and expense imposed by our well-meaning, over-powerful and ill-informed government: Daylight Saving Time.

Civics 101 teaches us that one function of elections is to keep leaders accountable to the people they serve. If a politician wants to attain or hold on to an office, he or she must behave in a manner that appeals to enough of the electorate to earn at least a plurality of the vote. That’s what representative democracy is all about.

What a relief—Minnesota’s fiscal crisis is over!

A renewed focus on improving minority attainment will lead to a stronger and more equitable economy

Last week former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin addressed the Tea Party movement and told them that "America is ready for another revolution."

As we mark the 50th anniversary this month of a hallmark image of the civil rights era - the earliest lunch-counter sit-ins - it's worth noting how all five freedoms in the First Amendment nurtured and empowered a movement that transformed our society.