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Unless Laos invites observers in to confirm or refute the claims that former resistance leaders have been imprisoned and tortured, most Hmong will believe that the US and Thailand have once again abandoned their former allies, with devastating results.

You may be returning to work this chilly Minnesota morning after a long holiday break away. The start of a new year for those in the north ought to be moved to the Ides of March, so that we can ring in this fresh start without frostbite and windchills. ...

This morning the government of Thailandbegan forcibly deporting thousands of Hmong asylum seekers to Laos from a refugee camp in the Phetchebun province. Many in the international community, including ...

Are you wondering what the New Year might bring? Try getting a grip on the future with some of the methods Norwegian peasants used, as described by Kathleen Stokker in Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions in Norway and the New Land. Quick—check the chimney smoke!

Before all of us at the press go to our respective homes and hunker down for a snowy holiday, we share with you a little Minnesota weather history from our book Minnesota Weather Almanac by University of Minnesota climatologist and MPR commentatorMark Seeley.

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Iric Nathanson, author of Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century, comments on the longstanding public-private partnerships in downtown Minneapolis in his recent piece for the Downtown Journal. He notes thatthese ...

The Twin Cities Daily Planet reports that photographer Abdi Roble and author Doug Rutledgeof The Somali Diaspora have returned to the Twin Cities to further document the Somalirefugee experiencein words and photos. ...

Some of you might be scrambling for gift ideas. Then again, some of you might be like us, sort of lazily drifting towards the holidays. Maybe there will be gifts, and then again, maybe there won't. A holiday surprise! We're...

Can’t get enough of Kevin Kling’s holiday tales? You can see him perform his celebrated Tales from the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis tonight.

To keep with the theme of “there’s a chill in the air,” we turn to the MHS Press book by Kathleen Stokker, Remedies and Rituals: Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land, which is filled with fascinating ...