Opinion Exchange

It's not funny: The disheartening state of creative and cultural nonprofits in Minnesota

Funding is difficult. Ticket sales have not bounced back. And workers are jumping ship.
Editorial

Let voters decide on Equal Rights Amendment

Minnesota voters can and should be trusted to weigh a constitutional measure that would safeguard abortion rights and protect historically vulnerable groups from discrimination.
Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Presidential ages

Opinion Exchange

Universities mirror society and the lack of trust in institutions

That trust must be regained through dialogue, learning more about the opposing argument and seeing the cards as they lay.
Editorial

Legislature must solve rideshare issue — now

With threat of service shutdown looming for Uber/Lyft, the clock is ticking on an essential element of today's economy.
Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Presidential election hurdles

Opinion Exchange

How to avoid an Uber/Lyft disaster

Editorial

Systemic insecurity: Saving Twin Cities light rail

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President Joe Biden in Wisconsin in early May, delivering remarks on his "Investing in America agenda."

When Biden and Trump agree, consumers should worry

We’re putting out the call for new commentary writers.
Opinion
New Voices
updated 20 hours 48 mins. ago
Star Tribune Opinion's latest feature spotlights commentaries written by first-time contributors to our pages. These thinkers, readers and opinionated community members from across Minnesota have something to say and, we hope, inspire you to join the conversation, too.
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Oct. 30, 2020, in Rochester.

A rousing Minnesota unwelcome for Donald Trump

An attack on meat

Twin Metals underground mine location: Aerial view of the area that would be mined by Twin Metals.
Special report Mining and the BWCA: Not this location
updated 16 hours 40 mins. ago
The Star Tribune Editorial Board has taken the position that the Twin Metals copper-nickel mining project near the BWCA should not proceed. That editorial and others leading up to it are collected here. Responses will be added as they are published.
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To heal, Minnesota needs more physical therapists

A stethoscope sits on an examination table in an exam room at a Community Clinic health center in Takoma Park, Md. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by And

Counterpoint: Has the center line moved on HMOs?

Editorial
May 16
Rachel Hopper and her son, Espen Hopper-Willams, filled out the FAFSA form together on a laptop during the financial aid workshop at South High School

In need of student aid? Don't give up now.

Opinion
May 16
Editorial cartoon: On Harrison Butker ...

Editorial cartoon: On Harrison Butker ...

Letters
May 16
The family of Israeli soldier Sergeant Yosef Dassa mourns during his funeral in Kiryat Ata, Israel, on Sunday. Dassa, 19, was killed during Israel's g

Readers Write: Nuances of Israel, Minneapolis, police and leadership, garlic mustard

Young chickens at a farm in Pescadero, Calif. Farms are fertile ground for the H5N1 virus to jump species — from cat to cow to pig and human, in any

As bird flu simmers as a human threat, past pandemic lessons take on new urgency

Pro-Palestinian anti-war protesters rally at the University of New Mexico Palestine solidarity encampment in response to a memo sent out by UNM Presid

What a 'free Palestine' means in practice

Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after fleeing from the southern Gaza city of Rafah in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on May 8.

What Biden forgot in his Holocaust Memorial speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 28, 2023.

Netanyahu's biggest mistake: Retaliating in Gaza without the support of the Palestinian Authority

Opinion
May 15
Editorial cartoon: How Trump can lose supporters

Editorial cartoon: How Trump can lose supporters

Letters
May 15
Readers Write: Midwifery, prior authorization, child care

Readers Write: Midwifery, prior authorization, child care

President Donald Trump with world leaders at the G-7 summit meeting in Canada in June 2018.

Like a Nixon in China, what Trump could do in foreign policy might surprise the world

Opinion Exchange

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