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Daniel McCarthy
Why I'm challenging Ilhan Omar in the primary
I agree we need Medicare for All and police reform, but we need a new approach to make it happen.
John M. Crisp, Tribune News Service (TNS)
Are we ready for a Civil War Lite?
Some level of violence before the Trump era ends is becoming unpleasantly imaginable.
Andreas Kluth
COVID-19 is most dangerous for the young. Economically, that is.
Millennial careers will never fully recover from the Great Recession plus pandemic complications. The result could be disabling generational conflict.
Lisa Clemons
City Council members, don't you dare question the trauma cops endure
We see more in a single day than you will in your lifetime.
Nell Irvin Painter
Style and usage: 'White' should be capitalized, too
Being racialized makes white people squirm. So let's racialize them.
Katherine Kersten
Racial justice: The new religion?
The "woke" movement is built on shows of "right thinking" and Puritan-style intolerance.
Lori Sturdevant
Laird M. Easton
Coronavirus's impact on the economy may be short-term
The recession is brutal, but historically, economies recover quickly.
Trump wrongly rolls back rules aimed at housing disparities
He says Obama policy would 'destroy' suburbs.
Shannon O’Neil
Mexico's misery, and a resurgence of illegal immigration, could be any new administration's first crisis.
Resulting tensions of Mexico's misery and a resurgence of illegal immigration post-COVID could destabilize the tightly woven bilateral relationship.
Louis Hoffman
Counterpoint: All these former leaders tried to reform the MPD
And they failed. It's time to try something entirely new.
Jonah Goldberg, Tribune News Service (TNS)
Justin Clark
Editorial counterpoint: Mail-in voting would undermine election integrity
The risk for ballot harvesting is high and we can't let that happen.
Bobby Ghosh
Democratic Party just doesn't understand Iran's regime
They imagine that the supreme leader will mend his ways if only he can be persuaded that the U.S. is not out to get him.
Francis Wilkinson
AOC's powerful and historic floor speech
The vulgar Ted Yoho will be remembered as the doormat on which a rising star wiped her shoes.
Melvin W. Carter Jr.
Melvin W. Carter Jr.: Define policing, once again, as a peacekeeping endeavor
Over the past century, the term "law enforcement" has hijacked the mission.
Jackie Cherryhomes, F. Clayton Tyler, Tim Baylor, Don Samuels, Sondra Samuels, Tom Hoch and Mark Addicks
Minneapolis needn't change its charter to change policing
City Council members haven't done the hard work of developing specific and actionable reforms.
Steven Rattner
Heaven help us if Judy Shelton joins the Fed
Trump's latest unqualified nominee to the Federal Reserve Board must be rejected.
Ben Cohen
Gary Hart
Gary Hart: How powerful is a president?
It is time for Congress to investigate the emergency authorities given to the chief executive.
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