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Ukraine aid vote is a domestic and geopolitical inflection point

Renowned Russia expert Fiona Hill reflects on the Kremlin's propaganda program, what President Vladimir Putin is thinking and how U.S. divisions impact international issues.
Editorial

Mpls. must investigate suspicious fires

Police Department staffing issues have led to a disturbingly low clearance rate for arson cases.
Opinion

Editorial cartoon: How does Marjorie Taylor Greene sleep at night?

Opinion Exchange

A return to birding

The technology and species have changed over the years, but the rewards remain.
Editorial

Systemic insecurity: Saving Twin Cities light rail

The network has developed public safety and perception problems that change its very nature. That can be fixed. A special report from the Star Tribune Editorial Board.
Opinion Exchange

The courage to follow the evidence on transgender care

Opinion Exchange

Republicans wanted a crackdown on Israel's critics. Columbia obliged.

Opinion Exchange

For this Minnesota legislator, action targeting child abuse is intensely personal

Editorial

Be a major player in film and TV game

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Opinion Exchange
April 18
A light rain early Tuesday evening didn't deter an explorer in Father Hennepin Bluff Park.

The little park that could … be better

We’re putting out the call for new commentary writers.
Opinion
New Voices
updated 20 hours 53 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
April 18
Editorial cartoon: U.S. House multi-step plan

Editorial cartoon: U.S. House multi-step plan

Opinion Exchange
April 18

Climate change looms large this election year

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 44 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 18
A 40-inch lake sturgeon caught and later released on the Rainy River near Baudette, Minn. The fish has undergone an impressive recovery in the area, w

Readers Write: Lake sturgeon, foreign policy, eclipses

Opinion Exchange
April 18
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in 2023.

Thomas L. Friedman: Is there a plausible outcome that's pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli and pro-Iranian?

Opinion Exchange
April 17

The 'Civility Caucus'

Opinion Exchange
April 17
Mitch Banks, 28, drove a pacer named Whata Machete past a fence on the track at the new Running Aces Harness Track in Forest Lake. Banks is from Canon

Sports betting push at Legislature resorts to punitive leverage

Letters
April 17
Readers Write: $15 cigarettes, federal debt

Readers Write: $15 cigarettes, federal debt

Opinion Exchange
April 17
FanDuel Sportsbook runs the sports betting operations at Diamond Jo Casino.

Minnesota's sports betting limits could be self-defeating

Opinion
April 17
Editorial cartoon: Presidential debate

Editorial cartoon: Presidential debate

Opinion Exchange
April 17
A view of the Minnesota State Capitol.

Why a state Voting Rights Act is needed now

Editorial
April 17

An urgent call for long-term care advocates

Letters
April 16
Students pull books from the shelves in the school library at Gideon Pond Elementary School in Burnsville in 2023.

Readers Write: Politicized education, presidential debates, election strategies, small-town papers

Opinion Exchange
April 16
"While Americans have paid $1.1 trillion in individual income taxes in the first half of fiscal year 2024, we have spent $430 billion just in interest

Taxes increasingly paying for the past — not the future

Opinion Exchange
April 16
"Since the [Hennepin Healthcare System] Board took control in 2007, CEO pay increased by more than 142%. Meanwhile, that same board sunsetted employee

Counterpoint: Hennepin Healthcare deserves an accountable board

Opinion Exchange

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