SNOW DAYS: Air flights and school have been cancelled and grocery shelves emptied in advance of a severe winter storm expected to travel from today in the southwest through Tuesday in Maine.   The storm could affect 200 million people, many of …

ECONOMIC STRIKE: The detainment of a 5-year-old boy by immigration agents has ratcheted up tensions in Minnesota and today hundreds of businesses across the state say they will remain closed, stalling economic activity in protest over ICE’s heavy hand.    Alison Kirwin, …

THE DIPLOMACY OF SELF: President Trump relieved financial markets yesterday telling the World Economic Forum in Davos that he will not use military force to take Greenland away from Denmark. “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive …

THE CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENT: Asked at a nearly two-hour press conference yesterday how far he would be willing to go to acquire Greenland for the US, President Trump replied tersely, “You’ll find out.”   He also said he has not closed out the …

A BITE OF DANISH: It’s been said that all politics are personal and none are more personal than the politics of Donald Trump.   The President sent a missive to Norway’s prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that because he did not win the …

THE GREENLAND GAMBIT: President Trump over the weekend announced that he will levy tariffs on the European countries opposing a US takeover of Greenland, using US taxes to bend them to his will. In response, ambassadors from the 27-nation European Union held …

CIVIL BEHAVIOR: A federal judge in Minnesota placed restrictions on how Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents deal with protesters as the Justice Department opened a criminal investigation inquiring whether Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have conspired to impede immigration …

CIVIL BEHAVIOR: President Trump yesterday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to quell growing protests in Minneapolis following two shootings carried out by immigration officers in that city.   Trump said in a social media post that “If the corrupt …

THE GREENLAND GAMBIT: Denmark, Greenland, and the United States have a “fundamental disagreement” over the future of the island territory of Denmark, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the Danish foreign minister, said after a meeting with top Trump administration officials.   President Trump has …

ON PRINCIPLE: Six veteran prosecutors in Minneapolis resigned rather than follow orders from the Justice Department to investigate the politics of the widow of Renee Good, the woman shot dead by an ICE officer last week.    The most senior to resign …