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John Rash

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Rash's commentary can be heard on WCCO-AM on Friday mornings at 8:10 a.m. and on Wednesdays on "Playing Politics," a podcast from the Editorial Board. He lives in St. Louis Park with his wife, two children and a dog..

Latest from John Rash

Rash: Tariffs are coming for your morning coffee

New trade policy poses risks to Minnesota’s exporters and consumers.
July 23, 2025
C. Hughes from Indianapolis competes in the Brewers Cup during the 2023 U.S. Coffee Championship Preliminaries at Spyhouse Coffee, in Minneapolis, Minn., on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022.

Rash: Minneapolis DFL endorsement convention mess reflects poorly on our great city

How are voters to trust the DFL-endorsed candidate is the best choice when their party couldn’t even run a successful convention?
July 21, 2025

Rash: Returning Ukraine’s abducted kids isn’t about geopolitics — it’s about justice

Klobuchar met Sunday with an appreciative Ukrainian community.
July 15, 2025
U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar poses for a photo with Ukrainian children during an event at the Ukrainian American Community Center in Minneapolis, Sunday, July 13, 2025.

Rash: The debt effect of the Big Beautiful Bill, by the numbers

Fiscally focused think tanks sound the alarm.
July 12, 2025
House Speaker Mike Johnson, with Republican leaders, signs the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 3, 2025.

Rash: An ‘unimaginable tragedy’ for Texas — and the country

Grief, and an eventual investigation, will follow flash floods that took at least 109 lives.
July 8, 2025
Volunteers in a search and rescue operation along the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, on Monday morning. Camp Mystic, the all-girls Christian summer camp hit by the catastrophic flooding in Central Texas, confirmed on Monday that at least 27 campers and counselors had died, calling the disaster an "unimaginable tragedy."

Rash: 20,000 kids have been abducted from Ukraine. These Midwest senators want to find them.

“The mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children is an atrocity,” said Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
July 2, 2025
A woman prays at a makeshift memorial in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on April 6, 2025, where a Russian strike on Friday killed 19 people, including nine children. A Russian missile strike near a playground in central Ukraine killed 19 people, including nine children. The attack was a painful reminder that a cease-fire remains as distant as ever.
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Rash: Smart policing ends Boelter search, Minnesota's largest manhunt

Coordinated, cohesive law enforcement efforts caught the alleged assassin and kept the carnage from being even worse.
June 17, 2025

Rash: Padilla's ejection from Noem event illustrates the Rashomon effect

Thursday’s incident in Los Angeles involving Sen. Alex Padilla is just the latest example.
June 13, 2025

Rash: Trump’s ill-advised military displays in Washington and LA

Parade and deployment are unnecessary and unwise displays of “hard power” amid a deemphasis of “soft power.”
June 11, 2025

Rash: At home, Jake Sullivan reflects on events abroad

Biden’s national security adviser, a Minneapolis native, considers crises across the world as well as the U.S. role.
June 6, 2025

Rash: Don’t dim America’s ‘beacon of hope’

Trump administration policies and recent rulings by the Supreme Court on migrants betray this country’s ideals.
June 3, 2025

The fiscal impact of the bill will be big, but it won’t be beautiful

Trillions estimated to be added to a federal debt that’s already unsustainable.
May 30, 2025
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