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Letters
Readers Write (Feb. 23): Immigration enforcement, Trump and the media, Southwest light rail and the Legislature
Without compassion, we lose.
Editorial
Stand with JCCs against religion-based hate and anti-Semitic threats
Recent incidents across the country should disgust all Americans.
Laura Danielson
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Get ready for pandemonium on immigration
New guidance from Homeland Security challenges prosecutorial discretion and makes every illegal immigrant a priority for deportation.
Editorial
No, Mr. President, we're not the enemy
The nation's founders recognized the importance of a free press.
Opinion
What you need to know about the 'enemies of the American people'
I run a branch office of them in Dallas. They report on local sports, culture, lives — and, yes, government. Also, they're people, too.
Opinion
Here's what the School Choice Act would jettison
Those "title" dollars? They pay for equitable education and make adaptation possible in specific ways, and they'd be gone. We all must monitor changing policies.
Letters
Readers Write (Feb. 22): U.S.-Mexico relations and Minnesota's farm economy, Southwest light rail, U.S. Rep. Jason Lewis, ideology and middle ground
Minnesota's farm economy stands in the balance
Opinion
What we expect of police: Too much
Leaving them out of situations that could be handled by other responders would reduce potentially fraught situations. They'd still be a call away if they were truly needed.
Opinion
Stop the Trump hysteria. His early stumbles are nothing new.
The jury's out, friends, and will be for a long time, except as to the steady hands at the Pentagon, Foggy Bottom, Langley, DHS and Justice, the exceptional nominee to the highest court, and the promise of big changes in the most burdensome reaches of the vast administrative state.
Opinion
Trump makes smart move for national security adviser
Having interviewed Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster several times (all off the record), I believe his qualities of strategic thinking, steadiness, a grasp of complexity and integrity are critical for someone whose job is to create a coherent foreign policy process for this president.
Editorial
Legislature can send a message on qualifications for U's Board of Regents
General Mills CEO Ken Powell would add global business perspective.
Editorial
Credit Yale for understanding history, renaming Calhoun College
University showed respect for the past rather than compulsion to erase it.
Opinion
Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf: The latest climate change wake-up call
I am reminded of my expedition there — and of the repercussions that the loss of ice shelves will have around the world in the form of rising seas and accelerated climate change.
Opinion
Trump's 'Pocahontas' slurs about Warren are not just demeaning, they're specious
Federally recognized tribal rolls are not exactly sacrosanct. Take it from one who has had dual enrollment for most of her 89 years.
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