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CIA nominee blew her chance to repudiate dark chapter
Gina Haspel needed to say torture she oversaw was immoral.
John Rash
Rash Report: 'In the Intense Now' of political protest, in 1968 and today
Walker Art Center's "Legacy of '68" film series sparks comparisons to current world turbulence.
Joe Shneider
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Attack of the invasive species: Data understate the degree of lake infestations
Statistics say 7 percent of state lakes have invaders, but the rate is vastly higher for larger bodies.
ALVIN EASTER
A new view of life thanks to 'Herbie,' my motorized chair
Observations on Dinkytown's mean streets, some awkward seats — and a furry friend.
LAWRENCE DOWNES
If only all the troubles in paradise were as easy as a volcano
It's a long, slow eruption, "a disaster you can walk away from" — highly localized and, in a certain frame of mind, even lovely.
DeWayne Davis, Arielle Rosenberg and Rob Eller-Isaacs
In America's war on the poor, it's time to fight back
Join us in our "National Call for Moral Revival" and help us put an end to discriminatory circumstances like the ones you'll read about in this article.
GARY M. JOHNSON
Private-college tuition: You could be the next contestant on 'The Price is Right'
Schools can't afford the growing financial needs of their students. So they're playing them off one another.
D.J. Tice
Want to know what health care costs in Minnesota? You may be in luck.
Minnesota legislation may lift the veil. It's passed the Senate and awaits action in the House.
Lori Sturdevant
Minnesota's state universities will fuel the future. So … legislators?
Public higher education must not be neglected.
Editorial, Mankato Free Press
There was no room for Richard Painter in Trump's GOP
His switch to DFL in U.S. Senate race is fallout from GOP's makeover.
Kevin Lindsey
Minnesota Senate must step up and pass bill on sexual harassment
State law needs a change. This bipartisan measure would make it. This is no time to back off.
Jon L. Pryor and Charles Reznikoff
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Unsettled issues at the Minnesota Legislature: Drugmakers must help pay for opioid solutions
The crisis demands changes in how pain is treated and in drug tracking. Pharma firms, which helped create the problem and have profited, need to chip in on the costs.
Cynthia M. Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS)
Time to take cheerleaders' bump and grind out of pro football?
In the wake of the #MeToo movement this is one 'contact sport' that has outlasted its time.
Editorial
Booming job growth should push up wages
It's also worth celebrating lower unemployment among blacks, Latinos.
Joe Nocera, Bloomberg View
How swell, these stock buybacks (insert asterisk)
Maximizing shareholder value, they call it. Which may or may not be the case. What's clear, however, is that workers are being minimized.
Ana Marie Cox
With progressive feminist allies like Schneiderman, who needs sexist pigs?
Correct politics has never been a guarantee of decent behavior.
R.T. RYBAK
Why Minnesota's 1998 tobacco settlement was a game-changer
For 20 years, it has funded such initiatives as a prevention center and a children's foundation.
Kirk Schneidawind
Editorial counterpoint: School boards are already pretty 'nimble'
Minnesota districts are dealing with a lot more complexities than editorial acknowledged.
Jason Lewis
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Editorial counterpoint: Apologists for Met Council are getting desperate
The usual suspects, such as Gov. Dayton and Mayor Frey, are making a last-gasp effort to hang onto power.
Karen deLacy
Gina Haspel can help fix the CIA's gender problem
I'm aware of the current debate around her nomination as director. But inclusion brings proven benefits to any workforce. That's especially true in the world's second-oldest profession — espionage.
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