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BRIAN RICE
2020 presidential campaign: Look at Misery Index, party cycles, key states
If the polls are the noise, these are the signals. (And, by the way, closely watch Wisconsin.)
Noah Smith
How 'free college' will wreck one of our greatest institutions
If governments don't shell out the money to replace lost tuition dollars, universities could end up starved of funds.
Editorial
Pennsylvania lawmakers won't let Philadelphia address gun violence
They're sending a message that the lives of children don't matter.
Peter A. Ubel
Health insurance relies on our picking wrong plan
The system would collapse if we all chose correctly.
Michael Nesset
Go to sleep, little baby — through tears if necessary: Thoughts on overly attendant parenting
Independence emerges from (mildly) tougher love.
Dick Schwartz
To a Village Person, my very deepest thanks
Yes, one of those guys who sang that "it's fun to stay at the YMCA" changed my world.
Sophia Lenarz-Coy and Allison O’Toole
1 in 11 people in our community is hungry; it doesn't have to be that way
There's enough food, and increasingly healthy kinds, to fill the need if we all pitch in.
Brian Malloy
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a man, faces a disadvantage
It's because he's gay, and saying that he's a beneficiary of sexism compared to female rivals denies realities that must be overcome.
Editorial
![St Paul Mayor Melvin Carter presented a $1.5 million supplemental public safety budget proposal to the City Council on Wednesday afternoon. ] GLEN STU](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/QFTOCPHH7ACHCF7CWONVKS5LCA.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Public safety, here and now, in St. Paul
Mayor Melvin Carter has a vision but may be neglecting immediate needs.
Letters
Readers Write: Gerrymandering, health care, affordable housing, Russia and impeachment, Trump
It's time for Democrats to do what they say they wanted.
Editorial
Unite to fight back vs. foreign disinformation campaigns
Russia attacked America and democracy in 2016. It can't be allowed to do it again in 2020.
Abraham Gutman, Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
Go ahead, fight with family this Thanksgiving — science has your back
Americans actually tend to avoid conflicts, and minds are hard to change anyway, but debate is not pointless.
Editorial, Dallas Morning News
Texas man was dead for three years before his body was found
Case is a reminder that too many people struggle with loneliness, isolation.
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