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Editorial, Seattle Times
Treaty-guaranteed whale hunting should go on
The Makah Tribe has complied with years of federal requirements.
Karl W. Smith
The growing economic case for decriminalizing sex work
Evidence shows it leads to drops in rape and female homicide.
Letters
Readers Write: Health care markets, data on mass shooters, pollution in Minnesota lakes
Market-based health care can't make us all healthy.
Editorial
Minnesota joins a legal fight worth having
State is standing up for young people who have been hurt by addictive Juul Labs products.
Matt Massman
Minnesota DHS sticking counties with its problems is the heart of this mess
Counties should not be responsible for administering state services, and they shouldn't have to pay for the state's errors.
Miski Noor
Editorial, Seattle Times
Picking winners and losers in the agriculture bailout
Farmers are hurting nationwide, but aid is not evenly split.
Cartoons
Justin Fox
In one important way U.S. rail transportation is the best in the world
Japan may have the best commuter trains, but we stand ahead in other ways.
Tom Redman
![At 360 Communities Food Shelf in Burnsville, canned goods as well as fresh veggies are available. ]Minnesotans visited food shelves 3.4 million times](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/RW6DQVV5ZBGEXCHHAYSIZKAERI.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Support your local, small-town food shelf
This holiday season, consider giving back to an organization that serves your community.
Letters
Readers Write: Achievement gap in Minnesota, thoughts on the 2020 Democratic field
The achievement gap has deep roots.
Editorial
Some firms escape taxes while nation's infrastructure decays
FedEx, for one, and the company's business depends on being able to deliver goods across the U.S.
Ross Douthat
The (conservative) case for Bernie Sanders
He's extreme, but in something of an old-fashioned, class (not culture) warrior way.
Letters
Readers Write: DHS mismanagement, lunch-shaming, elites in politics, Trump's tax cut
Remember those affected by DHS mismanagement.
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