Social Issues

November 18, 2007 3:00 PM

Minnesotans drive billions of vehicle miles a year, but the growth has leveled off

The number of miles Minnesotans drive has leveled off, stopping a decades-long trend. What's going on?

by Dan Olson

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November 16, 2007 5:00 PM

U of M students present child abduction case to president of South Sudan

A group of University of Minnesota students campaigning for the release of two kidnapped children in Sudan scored a major victory recently, when they were able to meet with the president of Southern Sudan.

by Roseanne Pereira

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November 16, 2007 4:50 PM

Hundreds of students skip class to protest Iraq war

The protesters called for the immediate return of the troops, a diversion of funds from the war effort to education and an end to military recruiting in high schools.

by Brandt Williams

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November 16, 2007 3:00 AM

Wing Young Huie searches for Asian America

Photographer Wing Young Huie offers Minnesotans a chance to look at themselves. For his well-known projects "Frogtown" and "Lake Street" he captured extraordinary images of ordinary people in St. Paul and Minneapolis. However in Huie's new book, "Looking for Asian America", he went in search of himself.

by Euan Kerr

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November 15, 2007 6:00 PM

Nathan Englander writes about 'the dirty war'

Nathan Englander's new book "The Ministry of Special Cases" is set against Argentina's 'dirty war.' It was the time in the late 1970s when thousands of people disappeared -- kidnapped and murdered by the military junta. Englander says the book grew out of a trip to Jerusalem.

by Euan Kerr

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November 15, 2007 5:00 PM

Pawlenty, Doyle and other Midwest governors sign on to global warming pact

Governors from six Midwestern states have agreed to set up a carbon trading market, called cap and trade.

by Stephanie Hemphill

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November 15, 2007 2:39 PM

Immigration legislation takes a hit

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has abandoned efforts to give driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants after a wave of negative reaction and neutral comments from Hilary Clinton. The fate of the legislation highlights the difficult political climate for immigration legislation.

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November 15, 2007 2:06 PM

Newsroom noose fuels sensitivity debate at MCTC

A noose hung on the ceiling at Minneapolis Community & Technical College's campus newspaper leads to the firing of the news editor and a campus discussion on race.