Minnesota
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Regina Spektor on “Home, Before and After,” and a Trip to the Boundary Waters
The singer talks to the music critic Amanda Petrusich about her most recent album, and the writer Alex Kotlowitz makes an annual pilgrimage to the northern woods of Minnesota.
U.S. Journal
An Abortion Clinic One Year Later
After the fall of Roe v. Wade, North Dakota’s Red River Women’s Clinic moved two miles away, into Minnesota and a new political reality.
The New Yorker Radio Hour
A Trip to the Boundary Waters
A chronicler of urban Chicago seeks solace in Minnesota. Plus, Susan Orlean on Ivana Trump, and Jane Mayer on Ohio’s lurch to the right. How does a swing state go hard red?
U.S. Journal
The Last Abortion Clinic in North Dakota Gets Ready to Leave
The Red River Women’s Clinic has thirty days to close on one side of the border with Minnesota, before reopening on the other.
Letter from Minneapolis
Derek Chauvin’s Trial and George Floyd’s City
Although many Americans see the former police officer’s conviction as just closure, many in Minneapolis view it as the beginning of a larger battle.
Campaign Chronicles
Will Trump’s “Law and Order” Message Work in Wisconsin?
The suburban counties outside of Milwaukee have been reliable Republican strongholds, but the region’s politics have become more complicated, and less predictable, under Trump.
News Desk
Minnesota’s Decades-Long Failure to Confront Police Abuse
Charges of systemic racism have been dismissed in a state now grappling with the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder.
Q. & A.
St. Paul’s Mayor on Violence in the Twin Cities
Melvin Carter speaks about the need for law-enforcement reforms, the role of the police in the community, and why patience shouldn’t be asked of those protesting the death of George Floyd.
Dispatch
Finding Stillness in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters in the Age of Trump
If mining is allowed to begin next to the Boundary Waters, the damage to its pristine rivers and lakes would be irreversible.
Postscript
The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento
In his music, Argento, America’s leading composer of lyric opera, strived not for originality but for sympathy.
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