John Rash

Minneapolis

Columnist and Editorial Writer at The Minnesota Star Tribune

John Rash - Star Tribune columnist and editorial writer; WCCO-AM media analyst; former U of MN adjunct journalism instructor

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Articles

Smart policing ends Boelter search, Minnesota's largest manhunt

1 week ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. At a Sunday-night news conference, political and police leaders rightly credited the women and men behind this manhunt, joining everyday Minnesotans lauding law enforcement for their efforts at keeping the public - as well as several other targeted political leaders - safe after the initial attacks.
Padilla's ejection from Noem event illustrates the Rashomon effect

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. "Rashomon," the seminal Japanese film in which the same event is recounted differently by different witnesses, was so influential it gave rise to a term describing the dynamic: the Rashomon effect. An example of this effect occurred Thursday, when America's deep divisions were on vivid display in reaction to the coverage of California Democratic Sen.
Trump's ill-advised military displays in Washington and LA

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. The massive military display was supposed to wait until Saturday. But President Donald Trump got a jump on it early, not waiting for the planned parade in Washington but deploying National Guard troops and active-duty Marines to Los Angeles in response to people protesting immigration raids. Both projections of force are ill advised.
At home, Jake Sullivan reflects on events abroad

3 weeks ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Before addressing a capacity crowd at a Humphrey School event on Thursday, Jake Sullivan, national security adviser in the Biden administration, spoke to some students from Minneapolis' Southwest High School, Sullivan's alma mater (along with Yale and Oxford).
Don't dim America's 'beacon of hope'

3 weeks ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. "Give me your tired, your poor, / your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / the wretched refuse of your teeming shore," were words once welcoming the world to America.
The fiscal impact of the bill will be big, but it won't be beautiful

4 weeks ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. In Washington, it's arithmetic versus rhetoric regarding economic issues. Politics may prevail in the short term. But ultimately, as always, math will win out.
American campuses need international students

1 month ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. "Veritas" - Latin for "verity" or "truth" - is Harvard's motto. So here's the truth about Harvard and nearly every campus in this country: International students are needed not just for higher education but for the higher standard of living and higher ideals their schools deliver to America.
Unite on the right to, and rights of, a free press

1 month ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. The world has become accustomed to President Donald Trump using his metaphorical bully pulpit to attack journalists by labeling them an "enemy of the people." So it seems novel when a new global leader from America with a literal pulpit instead prays for journalists - and praises them.
'Between both worlds,' Ukrainians in Minnesota contribute to each

1 month ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. On Thursday in Istanbul, presidents presiding over the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks since 2022 include Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia's Vladimir Putin's participation is uncertain, and just maybe America's Donald Trump will detour from the Mideast in a bid for peace in Eastern Europe.
Rash: Record graduation rate merits kudos

1 month ago | startribune.com | John Rash

Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Graduation-party season may have been a bit busier in Minnesota last spring. That's because a record percentage of students graduated last year: 59,720 of them, representing 84.2% of the class of 2024, according to recently released data from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). The news gets better: Demographic gaps, while enduring, narrowed.