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EXPLAINER: Minneapolis Policing Budget

  Mayor Jacob Frey’s proposed 2027-28 budget allocates…

Protecting Democracy #2: How Community and Media Are Working to Support Election Integrity

For months, teams of community leaders, unions, faith networks, neighborhood groups, and journalism organizations have been preparing for whatever this midterm election season might bring.

DEEP DIVE: Addressing Long-Time Issues of Fraud

Fraud is historically pervasive around the country. This deep dive starts with a case involving Minnesota immigrants in the 1920s, and ends with modern-day legislation and support so the attorney general's office can increase its staff to levels comparable to other states in being able to convict more people of fraud. The office has convicted 350 people of fraud since 2019, including those involving personal-care agencies, housing services, and autism treatment programs.

Publisher’s Commentary on World News Day: Why Our Feminist Media Platform Exists

Today is World News Day, which coincides with the United Nations International Day for Universal Access to Information. More than a thousand newsrooms from more than 100 countries are today pointing out the value of a free press, including Minnesota Women's Press. Here is our essay on the subject.

Publisher’s Commentary: “A Work in Progress” Documentary by Robert Reich

The conversations we can have with each other are not about telling people what to think, but by creating more places to think together. More opportunities to explore the essential ingredients of collective health and personal fulfillment, and to ask what we owe one another as neighbors and citizens. This feels more consequential to me than the horse races, outrage, and gossip that so often define the media landscape.

FOR SHARING: How, Where, When to Vote

Everything anyone might need to know about fair and accessible Minnesota voting in 2026. Please share, ask neighbors if they need help getting to a polling place, make a plan to vote with your network and be sure their voting registration is ready.

“What Forgiveness Means to Me” — A Story of Healing From Domestic Violence

After surviving an acid attack in South Africa by her ex-husband — and spending four months in a hospital — Primrose Ruwocha was able to rebuild her life in Minnesota.

Collective Power Is Key

There are insights in these pages about how collective solidarity builds far more for our health, prosperity, and happiness than any single government agency or corporate structure can provide.

Editor’s Letter and TOC: “The Right of the People”

The package of stories, from a feminist perspective, about "250 Years" of the United States. "As most of the voices in this issue point out, the way for a subjugated majority to win against an oppressive minority is through unity."

Excerpts from the Human Rights Watch Report on ICE-Related Violations

Excerpts from the Human Rights Watch report about accountability, needed reform, and community investment required to recover from the ICE occupation, including anecdotes from 150 interviews.

Talk & Do: Mothers in Greater Minnesota Call for Anti-Racist Education and Accountability (Part 1)

Yes, kids will be kids, “until you teach a child what they can and cannot do, and then they're going to be a different kind of kid.” By humanizing school systems, kids can “show up as whole people, not scared, not timid, and not head on a swivel — learning is not taking place in those situations, when we're just trying to get through a day.”

Talk & Do: Steps to Get From Crisis Response to Community Healing (Part 2)

“What I hope will come out of this winter are a reinvestment in mutual aid that is community-organized and led. That is whole-community resilience. These systems could keep being strengthened if they keep being nurtured.” Society has “not yet started to see the mental health impacts” these crises will have on children over time.