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Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
Naked Trump statues are beneath us
We don't get to be the movement that preaches inclusiveness if we embrace this type of mockery.
Editorial
A novel approach to attract book readers
Some publishers are releasing serial-like installments.
Emily Piper
Counterpoint: Minnesota leads in helping the disabled to live independently
Although a recent lawsuit hinders our work, we are definitely on the right track.
Jason George, Matthew Gordon and Joan Lee
![Members of anti-pipeline Native American environmental group Honor the Earth protested outside then many members attended the hearing. ] GLEN STUBBE *](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/C6TOTJBTHZGRIRBIJUAXHMXLWY.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
In Minnesota, red tape is strangling projects like Sandpiper pipeline
Dayton streamlined the environmental permit process. Why is it taking so long?
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact
PolitiFact: If a President Trump gave the military an illegal order …
… would commanders follow it? Should they? What's been said and what the precedent is.
Editorial
Pence provides a fine example for Trump on tax returns
But so far, the nominee seems intent on financial secrecy.
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg View
Should the U.S. be more like Denmark? Vice versa?
Both countries have something to learn from the other, but the evidence doesn't suggest benefits to a wholesale melding of ideology.
Editorial
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.
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