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D.J. Tice
Guaranteed income, no work required. Does it work?
Finland gave it a test run. The results were "disappointing."
Dean Zimmermann
Say what? Not every unfortunate utterance stems from intentional bigotry
We'd do well to remember that we're all learning, all of the time, writes former Minneapolis City Council Member Dean Zimmermann.
Jacob Frey and Phillipe Cunningham
Minneapolis development and economic equity: Upper Harbor Terminal can be a national model
A City Council committee should advance a concept plan, write Mayor Jacob Frey and Council Member Phillipe Cunningham. It's a starting point for the North Side, they add, and deeper community collaboration is baked into the next phase.
Multiple authors
Next up at University of Minnesota: Selection of four regents. Value merit, resist politics.
Those in the role must be able to both oversee and support the U's president. The process already in place to identify such people has worked well.
Letters
Editorial
Act now to strongly defend U.S.-European ties
A dangerous transatlantic divide is growing deeper under President Donald Trump.
Editorial
Americans now factor in the risk of mass shootings in everyday life
Add Friday's workplace attack in Chicago suburb to a growing list.
David Blankenhorn
It's Presidents' Day. A good time to ask: What would Lincoln do?
America's 16th president navigated times even more polarized than today's. But as he saw it, in politics "there are few things wholly evil or wholly good."
Cartoons
Editorial
Apple and Google are aiding repression of Saudi women
E-government service allows men to track their wives and daughters.
Editorial, Dallas Morning News
Too many Americans fail to understand the damage done by blackface
About 1 in 3 say its use is always or sometimes acceptable.
Letters
Cartoons
John Rash
Rash Report: 40 years on, Iran's Islamic Revolution still roils
A juxtaposition of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and an Iran-focused Mideast security conference in Warsaw.
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