Opinion Exchange

The best direction for gender care after the Cass Review

Clinical care should be guided by neither legislation nor ideology; it should be guided by evidence.
Editorial

Turn off cellphones in state's classrooms

Legislation that would require schools to have smartphone policies is a good foundation.
Opinion Exchange

The tale of two cities' assessed property values

Why Minneapolis appears less healthy than St. Paul, and what lies ahead.
Opinion Exchange

Thoughts from the Star Tribune's new community engagement director

We aim to invite more people to be part of the conversation.
Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Supreme Court's medical expertise

Editorial

Systemic insecurity: Saving Twin Cities light rail

Opinion Exchange

How many hostages are still alive? Hamas doesn't seem to know

Opinion Exchange

In Minnesota, statistical gloom amid the hope of a progressive-led boom

Editorial

Taiwan policy must be a campaign issue

More Opinion

Opinion Exchange
April 24

Cut down on electronic waste in Minnesota

We’re putting out the call for new commentary writers.
Opinion
New Voices
updated 58 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.
Opinion Exchange
April 24
"In every corner of our state, rural ambulance services are grappling with dwindling resources, mounting costs and an uncertain future," John Fox writ

Pass $120 million in emergency funding for rural EMS in Minnesota now

Opinion
April 24
Editorial cartoon: Anything but the news

Editorial cartoon: Anything but the news

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 10 hours 20 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.
Letters
April 24
Democratic state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, right, from Woodbury, speaks with Sen. Robert D. Farnsworth, R-Hibbing, on the floor of the Senate on April 2 i

Readers Write: State Sen. Nicole Mitchell, pro-Palestine protests, Third Precinct

Opinion Exchange
April 24
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after announcing that he is pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Room of the White House

We're paying today for Trump's international incompetence while in office

Opinion Exchange
April 24
“The Squad” — U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Alexa­ndria Ocasi­o-Cor­tez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., in 2

How 'the Squad' and like-minded progressives have changed their party

Opinion Exchange
April 23

Protect kids online

Opinion
April 23
Editorial cartoon: Sleepy Trump

Editorial cartoon: Sleepy Trump

Opinion Exchange
April 23
The teacher admitted choosing his words poorly, but denied threatening to have the boy deported.

Here's how I'd broadly frame the environment that led to my firing as a teacher

Opinion Exchange
April 23
"Imagine how exciting it would be for Minnesota to host a regular March primary election for statewide and local candidates," the writer says.

Get rid of Minnesota's precinct caucuses, go to primary elections up and down the ballot

Letters
April 23
Joe Blauert, of St. Paul, enjoys a cigar in the smoking lounge at Anthony's Pipe and Cigar Lounge in south Minneapolis last November. The Minneapolis

Readers Write: Smoking in Minneapolis, phones in schools, Trump's trial, theater, film

Editorial
April 23
Transparency leads to better government

Transparency leads to better government

Opinion Exchange
April 23

D.J. Tice: For this Minnesota legislator, action targeting child abuse is intensely personal

Opinion Exchange
April 23

How women kept the Twin Cities on the big-deal sports event map

Opinion Exchange
April 23
These samples were part of research into drinking water and PFAS at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Em

We regulate a tiny fraction of the 12,000 'forever chemicals'

Opinion Exchange

The Opinion section is an exchange of ideas produced by the Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom.