When I saw the cellphone videos of U.S. Border Patrol agents executing Alex Pretti on a snowy street in Minneapolis, the shameless brutality of the shooting reminded me of another execution 58 years earlier on a war-torn street in Saigon….
Peace ain’t what it’s cracked up to be
This past Jan. 15 — ironically, on the actual birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. — the 2025 Nobel laureate for peace, Maria Corina Machado, took her prize medal, encased in a gold (of course) and glass frame, to the…
Everyone has a part to play in the fight against ICE
I was in Minneapolis the week Alex Pretti was shot more than 10 times by Customs and Border Patrol Agents. I originally went to Minneapolis to write about the aftermath of Renee Good’s murder by an ICE agent. As I…
We can win with nonviolence
Since early December 2025, Minnesota has been under siege. Stories and videos have been pouring out of Minnesota — and elsewhere in the United States — of ICE’s violent, illegal and unethical actions. We have seen peaceful protesters assaulted; we…
What to Know About the ‘Abortion Clinic’ Law Being Used to Charge Don Lemon
The Trump administration used a federal law prohibiting blockades of abortion clinics and places of worship to charge Mr. Lemon and others in Minnesota.
‘I see you, I grieve with you, I stand with you’
My heart retches within me. I grieve for the lives of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Good was murdered while she attempted to drive away from an ICE agent, shot at least twice through her window after the ICE agent…
‘These are not law enforcement tactics’
The Trump administration is endangering the very American communities it claims to be protecting through drastic immigration enforcement efforts, a Southern law enforcement official said. “Our role is to keep our communities safe, and what we’re witnessing all across this…
Franklin Graham blames Renee Good, urges prayer for Trump team
America needs to repent of its sin and pray for Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, according to evangelist Franklin Graham. In a Jan. 14 interview on CBN, Graham issued the national call to prayer…
‘Courage is contagious,” Rep. Jason Crow says
“Donald Trump knows that fear is contagious, but what we know is that courage is also contagious and it is catching up,” U.S. Rep. Jason Crow told participants in the “Together for Democracy” conference Jan. 29. Crow, a Democrat and…
Top Vatican official calls violence in Minneapolis ‘unacceptable’
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Leo XIV’s key adviser and the Vatican’s secretary of state, described the deadly shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis as “unacceptable,” as a growing number of Catholic prelates in the United States have spoken against immigration…
Moral courage in a time of crisis
The author delivered the following comments at “Together for Democracy” in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Jan. 29. Today is day 59 of the federal occupation of my hometown of Minneapolis. I’ve experienced 58 of those days. And let me tell…
Letitia James: ‘We’ve got the law and righteousness on our side’
“There’s more of us than there are of them, and we’ve got the law on our side and righteousness on our side,” New York Attorney General Letitia James told about 500 people gathered for a symposium on saving American democracy…