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Editorial, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UAE's lofty ambition: A city the size of Chicago on Mars
For the tiny nation, the limit is way beyond the sky: a city on Mars by 2117.
Editorial
Brutal CBO score suggests GOP's Obamacare replacement needs a replacement
CBO weighs in on the Obamacare replacement. Buyer beware, especially for older Americans.
Opinion
Trump doing what Obama didn't: Reaching out, listening
This is the kind of behavior that helps a leader pass a key initiative — say, health care reform.
Opinion
We urgently need the Legislature, governor to pass Real ID
But if they don't, here are your alternatives.
Letters
Readers Write (March 15): Urban vs. rural legislation, the health care debate, Surdyk's penalty
The 60 percent of Minnesotans who live in the metro area respond.
Cartoons
Opinion
In defense of the Congressional Budget Office
Congress needs all the help it can get from the team of neutral experts it created for moments like the one we're in.
Opinion
Why we need more forces in Afghanistan
ISIS is trying to carve out another haven from which it can plan and execute attacks.
Editorial
Surdyk's owner wrong to sell liquor last weekend, four months before Sunday sales are officially legal.
Why wait to sell booze on Sundays? Because it's still illegal.
Letters
Opinion
White people get to juggle for the cops. Black people have to fear them.
Let's compare two incidents that went viral on social media — one fatal, one friendly.
Opinion
We spend $100 billion on policing. We have no idea what works.
Do various tactics have benefits? If so, do the benefits outweigh the costs? That's what we ask almost everywhere else in government.
Editorial
Opinion
Federal employment levels have been remarkably steady over the years
Can the Trump administration really make a big dent in this? Should it?
Opinion
The electric-car rush started too early
The modern electric vehicle is conceptually inconsistent with how people want to use cars, and in many countries the environmental effect of switching to EVs is negligible.
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