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Bullying executives won't result in lower prescription drug costs
Congress needs to allow Medicare to negotiate prices, among other steps.
Mitch Pearlstein
Editorial counterpoint: Absenteeism issue missed a big point – the kids
For all the barriers to learning and efforts at school reform, what happened to showing up?
Kurt Ullrich
Friday night lights: It's who we are, who we want to be
Similarities trump differences under the lights in town after town.
Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View
Reckless Edward Snowden deserves no presidential pardon
His leaks had some value for Americans — but they were worth much, much more to our enemies.
Bjorn Lomborg
Feel-good solutions won't solve climate change
Subsidizing solar and wind programs may be politically popular and oh-so fashionable, but investment in green research will pay bigger dividends in human lives.
HAMDI ABDI
Reduced to tears by responses to St. Cloud attacks
The irony is that people are reacting exactly the way terrorist groups like ISIL hope to encourage.
Jim Scheibel and Jeannie Fox
Taxes need to be called just that, not 'fees'
People want straightforward transparency in their governments, not mumbo-jumbo designed to skirt constitutional protections.
Abdi Warsame
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Diversity of Minnesota is what makes us strong in face of terror
It's easy to come together when times are good, but the real test is when they aren't.
Taking responsibility for the Wells Fargo fiasco
Top executives failed to heed basic ethical practices.
Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View
Bush I backing Clinton is Trump's biggest defection yet
The GOP's top ranks can't stomach the nominee. Voters should listen, but will they?
A good news story from beleaguered Chicago
Fundraising campaign to help street vendor shows city's heart.
Thomas Kottke and Charlie Fazio
Here's how we can end extortionate drug price increases
Runaway medication costs are the fastest-growing driver of health-care expenses.
Gitane De Silva
Counterpoint: Take another look at the Alberta tar sands
In Canada, recent measures show a strong commitment to reducing greenhouse gases.
Val Baertlein and Marlene Reid
Counterpoint: Ad from Catholics for Choice is full of egregious falsehoods
This group is misrepresenting itself, for starters. And funding abortion is not a social justice value for the church.
D.J. Tice
What is deserved for a sex offender?
The Heinrich confession and a case with an offender less vile raise the question anew.
Lori Sturdevant
Divining the vote, by congressional district, by educational degree
More than ever, schooling has predictive power in the election. The impact here:
Editorial, St. Cloud Times
Athletes are testing the boundaries of free speech
Sure they're controversial, but anthem protests further the dialogue.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
Chaos is nourished in Western support via Saudis
The fanciful notion is that instability will help to "contain" Iran. The sooner Saudi Arabia's rulers cease with this, the better for all.
Stephen B. Young
The case for Trump
We need to turn our backs on the elites, and he's the one who has emerged as the rebel leader in that cause.
Lawrence R. Jacobs
Trump is trying to divide us, but it's backfiring. We are One Nation.
Trump seeks to divide us, but it's backfiring. We have always been One Nation, and we are embracing it more than ever.
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