China boosts reported defence spending 7% in drive to modernise by 2035 – Reuters: ‘the lowest rate in five years but still outpacing wider economic growth targets and ​the rest of Asia’

Fed report highlights economic effects of ICE surge as businesses struggle to replace workers at home www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Member Spotlight: Laurie Hertzel authorsguild.org/member-spotl...

Our Digital Intelligence team lead, Jerry Yu, will speak at @hooverinstitution.bsky.social's event on March 9 about FIMI in Taiwan and the US. As PRC influence operations grow experts will examine how democracies balance security and civil liberties. Register here: lnkd.in/gfeg75BY

Residents carry the Earth God palanquin around Shezidao village during the Lantern Festival in Taipei, Taiwan 📸 I-hwa Cheng

Fool Me Twice: The Case for War With Iran Is Even Thinner Than It Was for Iraq theintercept.com/2026/02/28/u...

Man in apparent mental health crisis taken by ICE from hospital, transferred out of state www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Minnesotan among six service members killed in airstrike in Kuwait www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

St. Paul Public Schools has spent nearly $1M on virtual learning, other support for immigrant families www.twincities.com/2026/02/28/s...

'Language is a need': Ojibwe, Dakota speakers work to preserve, revive Indigenous languages www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Dozens 'dine-in,' rally at immigrant-owned restaurants in northeast Minneapolis to protest ICE www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

"Taiwan Travelogue," a novel about food and female friendship in Japanese colonial-era Taiwan, has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize. Here is our review from 2024.

"Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else." www.bostonreview.net/articles/jef...

Tobias Carroll on the shockingly mixed fascist (and antifascist) legacies of England’s Mosley family. buff.ly/6mryl2j

When Mao’s Mango Mania Took Over China daily.jstor.org/when-maos-ma...

Families tell of life in Texas detention center www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

UK and German offices in Taiwan mark 228 Peace Memorial Day – Focus Taiwan: ‘The German office added that democratic societies such as Germany and Taiwan have a responsibility to continue clarifying the truth and restoring justice for victims.’

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, many Latinos question whether they belong www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

Hellscape for Taiwan. Rethinking Asymmetric Defense www.cnas.org/publications...

“.. a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Notable development in Fulton County's motion for return of election materials seized by FBI: The clerk of court, Che Alexander, seeks to join the case. DOJ previously argued that the Fulton Board of Elections does not have standing bc the clerk had custody of the ballots.

On the one hand, the Trump administration is telling Europeans to take care of their own defense. On the other hand, they are supporting leaders and parties who are pro-Russian, opposed to European unity and don't want Europe to defend Ukraine or anything else. Which is the policy?

Michio Hoshino slipped his finger into a bear’s mouth — and found fragility, not fear. Now, his Alaska essays arrive in English in "The Traveling Tree."

An Australian frigate has conducted what Canberra described as a routine transit through the South China Sea, with Chinese state media claiming the vessel was tracked and monitored throughout its passage. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/australian-w...

228 Commemoration Moves to Kaohsiung Museum of History with Exhibitions, Concerts and Lectures. Citywide programs mark 79th anniversary, linking historic sites, performances and public dialogue on human rights www.kaohsiungtimes.com/228-commemor...

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

The average American family doesn’t come close to having enough income to comfortably afford childcare, according to a LendingTree study last month. https://bit.ly/40rhkCA

The Trump administration is trying to erase Black history. These writers are keeping it alive. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

St. Paul neighbors band together to oppose immigration crackdown www.twincities.com/2026/02/21/s...

Upper Midwest leaders navigate the region’s uncertain economic future www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

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When dictators dream in white. (Free to read. See the next pane.) foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/20/m...

So far this year, U.S.-domiciled investors have pulled $52 billion out of US equity products — “the most in the first eight weeks of the year since at least 2010.” 😔 @reuters.com #ByeAmerica www.reuters.com/business/buy...

10% yesterday. 15% today. As Gorsuch wrote, could be “1 percent or 1,000,000 percent .. and he may change his mind at any time for nearly any reason.” 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Weiser: Antitrust laws aren’t enforced only by the federal government — they’re also enforced by state attorneys general. So whatever corrupt dealings or presidential whims might occur, we still have the authority to review mergers

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A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Did Peng Zhen Rebel Against Mao? A startling Chinese-language biography of Mao’s one-time enforcer reveals the folly of hoping that Party officials will break ranks — and the importance of revisionist histories. chinabooksreview.com/2026/02/19/p...

Turning a Blind Eye. A memoir of daily accommodation to fascism. www.bostonreview.net/articles/tur...

The word ‘revolution’ enjoys a special place in our political vocabulary. It is associated with events that shaped the modern world – the English Revolution of the mid-17th century, the French Revolution of 1789, the revolutions of 1848, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Chinese Revolution ....

You Say You Want a Revolution. Should historians look at violent revolutions with rose-colored glasses while vindicating the terror that carried them forth? lareviewofbooks.org/article/revo...

There is an undeniable symmetry between surges in drug use in the US and the country’s covert operations overseas. The first CIA clients to see the benefits of the opium trade in South-East Asia were the Chinese Kuomintang expelled to the Golden Triangle between Burma, Thailand and Laos in the ..

A look at trends in college consolidation since 2016 We’re tracking major closings, mergers, acquisitions and other consolidation among public and private nonprofit institutions from 2016 to the present. www.highereddive.com/news/how-man...

UMN law professor Ilan Wurman takes his birthright citizenship argument to Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a challenge to a Trump executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship. mndaily.com/city/umn-law...