David Banks
Commentary Editor
Culture & PoliticsDavid Banks has been involved with various aspects of the opinion pages and their online counterparts since 2005. Before that, he was primarily involved with the editing and production of local coverage. He joined the Star Tribune in 1994.
Latest from David Banks
Banks: Look what ICE is doing in your name
If immigration enforcement was what you wanted, did it look like this?
April 5, 2025
Banks: Trump orders up a crypto reserve. This is OK.
I’ll take the “what could go right?” approach on this one.
March 30, 2025
Banks: ‘You call that customer service?’ — Part two
A summary of reader responses to — and further thoughts about — a column that connected.
January 23, 2025
Banks: Here’s SALT in your eye
The State and Local Tax deduction is a bargaining chip in extending the 2017 tax cuts. Just know it’s not all about big earners.
January 16, 2025
Banks: You call that customer service?
Beyond the frustration over health care elevated by a CEO’s shooting, of all things, is the breakdown of that basic social contract.
January 11, 2025
Banks: Amid tragedy, one finds the truth in clichés
Such as “there but for the grace of God” and “change is the only constant.”
January 10, 2025
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He’s back, and better than ever, in his way
It’s not a way I particularly care for, but we’ll need to weather this again. It’s almost an imperative to have hope.
November 6, 2024
Banks: Tools, schools and rules: The risk of squelching curiosity
Smartphones are a scourge and one we can make excellent use of if we try.
September 19, 2024
The underplayed point in the Biden plight
Voters of integrity are being put in a quandary.
July 11, 2024
Reflections on decades spent working for a decent person
Scott Gillespie fostered a work environment that took some of the stress, but none of the demands, out of daily journalism.
May 30, 2024
David Banks: What Ecclesiastes said, approximately
Nothing new under the sun except to realize it.
May 6, 2024
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