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Robert L. Simon
I'm a black cop. Here's how recent events and reactions look to me.
Biases are real — my experiences bear this out, as does a recent commentary. That doesn't mean that circumstances are unambiguous in police shootings.
Editorial
The internship scam
Unpaid work at White House, elsewhere in D.C. is hypocrisy in high places.
Drew Hamre
Counterpoint: The obfuscation surrounding the Iraq war continues
A recent commentary about a British report attempts to downplay the many lies, while remaining blithely oblivious to the hundreds of thousands of lost lives.
Cass Sunstein, Bloomberg View
GMO debate shows that Congress is bad at regulating
On labeling, lawmakers have made none of the cost-benefit comparisons that would be required of federal agencies. And thats not the only lesson.
Bobby Hilliard
U.S. Constitution: Beware amendments. Embrace original intent.
One reason people are fed up with government is that Congress has abdicated its lawmaking responsibility to the unelected officials running federal agencies.
Gina Barreca
Male broadcasters, let's see your solid(arity) biceps
For whatever reason, your female counterparts are sleeveless, so … you, too.
Lori Sturdevant
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Party convention season: Voters just can't help falling in love with a familiar face
It wasn't always this way. But now we've had Reagan, Ventura, Franken, Page, Grams …
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Why terrorists keep succeeding in France
For starters, cooperation between the police and security services is inadequate, and then there is the nation's colonial past.
John Rash
Rash Report: Voters' interest intense in presidential race
Electorate is riveted but disappointed as consecutive conventions kick off in Cleveland and then Philadelphia.
Anne Balay and Mona Shattell
How freeway protests alienate truckers
We are allies to the Black Lives Matter cause, but know that for some, stopped traffic is more than an inconvenience.
The Economist
Party convention season: It's a dark morning in America
A solid outlook but a sour mood, and a candidate with the potential to change the former.
Stephen B. Young
Party convention season: The realignment of the working class
Revolts are against a "new" ruling class created by postindustrial economic facts.
Stephen Carter, Bloomberg View
We need Thurgood Marshall's wisdom these days
He was able to see humanity even across a bitter divide.
Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg View
This is the beginning of the end of the NRA
Demographics, body counts and the group's own extremism all suggest that the top has been made.
Editorial, Bloomberg View
Myron Orfield and Will Stancil
The problem of racial segregation: Long identified, long deflected
After initial movement toward integration from 1968 to 1985, Twin Cities have fallen back into the pattern.
Larry Kennedy
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Counterpoint: St. Croix River bridge wasn't 'hawked'
The project resulted from the input of 28 stakeholders representing a wide range of interests over several years.
Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View
Mike Pence looks like Donald Trump's ideal veep
This would be a choice that could have come from any of the GOP presidential candidates.
David M. Frankel
What's happening to Obamacare?
That once-predicted "death spiral" is on the horizon, partly because of unpragmatic motives in Congress. Fixes are urgent.
Editorial
Ginsburg vs. Trump
The Supreme Court justice went way too far in taking a stand on election.
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