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Afghan interpreters deserve U.S. support
Instead, lawmakers are questioning their special status
John Rash
Rash Report: 'Average Mohamed' story is everything but average
Minneapolis' Mohamed Amin Ahmed creates a cartoon counternarrative to extremism.
Peter M. Leschak
Metazoa's arc: Our personal stake in human destiny
The march of progress has brought us to a distinctly human era — which calls for an examination of our personal stake in destiny.
Frederic W. "Fritz" Knaak
Editorial counterpoint: As far as transit goes, Minneapolis is acting like a brat
Since when was there consensus on a "one for all and all for one" metro-area system?
Brian Blase, Tribune News Service (TNS)
Obamacare's critical condition
The subsidies, the mandate and corporate welfare didn't work, and the individual insurance market is in disarray
AHMED THARWAT
New Olympic sport: judging athletes in hijabs
The Egyptian women's beach volleyball team changed the conversation about women's dress and feminism.
David Morris
Counterpoint: Reconsider just what a 'public good' is
Aren't rural high-speed internet and garbage collection worth government playing a role?
Melissa Barnes
Drive as if that pedestrian is your child, father, mother, brother, sister or friend
We all need to stay alert and aware – whether we are in a vehicle or on foot – to save lives.
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Among women, the college-educated, the Trump-ocalypse is coming.
His alienation from those groups puts key states out of reach — yet he's doubling down on the tone and themes they dislike.
Jamal Abdulahi
Trump's attack on Somalis illustrates the harm he could do
And Minnesota's GOP leaders have a moral duty to speak out.
Michelle Dabrowski
Allina and the nurses union: Why I will go to work even if strike is called
For financial reasons, yes, since I am my family's sole earner. But mostly because I don't want to abandon my patients, my unit and my hospital communities.
Connie Ferdinand
Allina and the nurses union: Management is putting same lipstick on a different pig
Counterpoint: Hospital management's take-it-or-leave-it offer is no "healthy compromise." In fact, Allina only insults us nurses and issues us ultimatums.
Editorial
Savor these golden moments
Rio Olympics have given us Phelps and Bolt, two of the greatest ever.
Andrew Malcolm, Special to McClatchy (TNS)
Media bias as I see it
Yes, it exists, though not as a conspiracy. Also, candidates use it to keep their side united against a common enemy. Also, no one likes the messenger.
Dr. Penny Wheeler, 
Allina's offer to the union is a healthy compromise
Latest health care proposal to nurses would keep insurance plans that 95 percent use.
Stephanie Fenner
Counterpoint: Minnesota's economy is on the right track now
To the extent there's mediocrity, can we really blame blue-state policies when red-state ones held sway for much of the last 15 years?
Steve Schewe
Memo to Hillary Clinton (do not read until Nov. 9)
Here's a list of the 10 things you should do next.
Leigh Sprague
My nice introduction to 'Minnesota Nice'
In particular, the people I've met aren't passing judgment on my less than "typical" arrival.
Travis N. Rieder
Is the 'lesser of two evils' an ethical choice for voters?
They may have to get their hands dirty.
The bus rapid transit Orange Line: An idea everyone should value?
A pair of commentaries on Twin Cities-area regional planning.
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