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Lori Sturdevant
In Minnesota, would home-grown health care cost containment have better odds?
Health care policy punt to states may be welcomed.
John Rash
Rash Report: What 'Dunkirk' displays about Britain, then and now
A temporary retreat from a hostile continent during wartime to a permanent Brexit divorce from today's welcoming Europe.
Lori Sturdevant
There's cause for concern about party role in democracy
Could no-party-endorsement trend reach the state level?
D.J. Tice
Charlie Gard and freedom's final frontier
A baby boy's suffering goes global at the crossroads of the right to try and the right to die.
John Rash
Rash Report: Gulf diplomatic strife engulfs Al Jazeera, too
The dispute between Qatar and four nations led by Saudi Arabia threatens regional stability.
John Rash
Rash Report: Why Trump's — and America's —international image matters
A new Pew poll reports low global confidence in the president, which may make diplomatic efforts more difficult.
D.J. Tice
On travel ban, Supreme Court threaded the needle
Court did what courts should.
Lori Sturdevant
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Hypotheticals: The Met Council edition
Imagine if it had always been an elected body. Would there be less partisan suspicion?
John Rash
Rash Report: NATO 'obsolete'? Minnesota National Guard proves that's not the case
A training exercise takes our soldiers to Lithuania for on-the-ground experience in an area that (one never knows) they might be called upon to defend.
Lori Sturdevant
Can feminism's goals once again be bipartisan?
For women, the economic mission is yet to be accomplished.
Lori Sturdevant
As history shows, political violence is a wicked thief for a democracy
As I saw too many times when young, it steals the public's power to decide.
D.J. Tice
The Yanez jury has done its job; now we must, too
Respect — for verdict, and for pain it causes — is key to community healing.
D.J. Tice
Progressives' new-found love for states' rights
The left, ahem, seems to be coming around to the beauty of local control.
Lori Sturdevant
Minnesota's Supreme Court must come to the rescue
What's at stake in battle between the governor and the Legislature is not just politics, but the state's Constitution.
John Rash
Rash Report: There's consensus on one president, at least
Russian interference in America's democracy should inspire the pursuit of the truth.
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