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Daniel Okrent
May 20, 2019
President Donald Trump's senior adviser, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, departs the Capitol after a meeting with Senate Republicans, in Washington, Tu

Educational standards as primary benchmark for immigration: We've seen this move before

Jared Kushner's immigration plan is a version of a discriminatory effort from more than a century ago.
David Banks
May 19, 2019
A woman interacts with a robot at the Barbican exhibition centre in London, Wednesday, May 15, 2019. Robots interact with humans at the exhibition 'AI

Artificial intelligence: Now taking the words right out of our mouths

And putting them in there, too.
Editorial
May 18, 2019

Trump's new immigration plan is an improvement, if it's for real

It's also political posturing.
John Rash
May 17, 2019
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Elysee Palace after his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, Friday, May 10, 2019. Zuckerb

Rash Report: Even from a co-founder, Facebook faces calls for reform

"Christchurch Call" amplifies global concern over antisocial abuse of social media.
D.J. Tice
May 17, 2019

Econ 101 is politically conducive — suddenly, selectively

When the left thinks (or not) about impacts on businesses and consumers, tariff-taxes terrible. Tax-taxes totally cool.
Tim Penny and David Minge
May 17, 2019
House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Ga. and President Clinton share a laugh on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday Aug. 5, 1997 where the president s

Our leaders are too reliant on the national credit card

There was a shining moment of fiscal discipline in the 1990s. What's happened since is shameful and dangerous.
CRAIG BOWRON
May 17, 2019
A walk through Deep Time on the Stone Arch Bridge

A walk through Deep Time on the Stone Arch Bridge

Here's a thought experiment to put our impact on this world in perspective.
Editorial
May 17, 2019

San Francisco action on facial-recognition technology goes too far

A "pause" would be better than a ban.
Matthew D. Mitchell and Tad DeHaven
May 17, 2019
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2018, file photo, Mike Starkey offloads soybeans from his combine as he harvests his crops in Brownsburg, Ind. For months, th

Trade wars come and go, but farm lobby power is forever

The story of the president raising taxes on consumers and sharing proceeds with select commercial interests is a tale as old as time.
John Pfaff
May 17, 2019
Prison inmates are on lockdown inside A Cell Hall as media and Minnesota State Legislators tour the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Stillwater. ] L

Five myths about the U.S. prison system

The reinvention of the system is one of the most important issues of our time, but first we have to separate fact and fiction.
David Banks
May 17, 2019
July 12, 1994 Lollapalooza 94, the fourth annual alternative rock festival held at Harriet Island in St. Paul. Fans are passed around in the Mosh Pit

Forwarded with comment: Generation X marks a spot

Now roughly halfway through adulthood, the demographic cohort is having a moment.
James Brewer Stewart
May 16, 2019
John C. Calhoun thought, among other things, that slavery was positive on the whole, that the economic system was inevitably rigged and that states co

Counterpoint: Cherry-picking can't hide nightmare of Calhoun

Yes, several of history's important leaders had slaves or once supported slavery. But that's not the whole story.
Gary Brueggemann
May 16, 2019
iStock Mouth of the Minnesota River in the Mississippi River below of the Fort Snelling. Woodcut engraving after a drawing by Rudolf Cronau (German pa

Counterpoint: Fort Snelling history offers name insight

Understanding the development of Minnesota can explain why Lake Calhoun is appropriately named.
Ray Takeyh
May 16, 2019
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2015, file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant j

What Iran understands about its leverage

It can't win a war against the U.S. But Tehran could win in negotiations.
C. Fausto Cabrera
May 15, 2019
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Counterpoint: Inmates like me should have the right to vote

Giving us the right to vote won't put us back on the streets, but it could help mend what's broken within our system.
Emilie Kao, Tribune News Service (TNS)
May 15, 2019
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Congress is set to pass Equality Act that will devastate women's sports

Women should not be forced to compete against someone born with male physiology.
May 15, 2019
Election official Carol Messner gives out stickers at Winthrop Community Hall. ] LEILA NAVIDI ¥ leila.navidi@startribune.com BACKGROUND INFORMATI

Legislature should support ranked-choice voting bill

The system encourages candidates to appeal to a broader swath of voters.
Stephanie Wilkinson
May 15, 2019
People walk past the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., Wednesday, June 27, 2018. The co-owner of the Virginia restaurant that refused to serve Whi

Me, Sarah Sanders, the resistance and the response

What's transpired in the year since I asked the White House press secretary to leave my restaurant, the Red Hen. It's a story of hate and inspiration.
Editorial
May 15, 2019

Trump has big plans for Washington's July 4th

He's shown that he'll hijack any event for his own partisan purposes.
Mike Kmiecik
May 14, 2019
A route 3 bus on the University of Minnesota campus Monday Tuesday afternoon. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com Metro Transit is ca

Counterpoint: Express buses won't work on Chicago Avenue

This is a narrow street with one lane of traffic in each direction. The successful A Line approach can't simply be copied here.
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