A Nobel Peace Prize for Minneapolis? It’s a Worthy Idea

The city of Minneapolis and its people deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. The city was formally nominated for the prize in January by the progressive magazine The Nation, a move met with a “heck yes” by a longtime member of the editorial board at the city’s main newspaper.

True, it would be unprecedented. No city has ever won. But, as the nominators wrote, these are unprecedented times and Minneapolis “has met and exceeded the committee’s standard of promoting ‘democracy and human rights and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world.’”