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Letters
Readers Write: Israel and Gaza, waterboarding, polling on gun policy, antireligious bias
Embassy move is not the trigger of new violence.
Dong Hyuk Lee and Amanda Bennett
Voice of America has a role to play on the Korean Peninsula
Let's give North Koreans the outside information they crave. Like we've done successfully with other countries before.
John M. Crisp, Tribune News Service (TNS)
Nominations are battlegrounds. But the Haspel nomination is maybe worth a fight?
It reflects the American ambivalence about torture.
Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View
Partisan battle lines on confirmations are hardening
A spin through recent history shows the trend and how it bodes ill for the future.
Editorial
It was far from a 'great day' in increasingly tense Mideast
While Trump celebrates embassy move, Israelis and Palestinians clash
Leonid Bershidsky
Why Germans are getting fed up with America
The establishment is frustrated but patient. The voters are increasingly anti-American.
Mike Gamache and, ANNETTE THOMPSON
It's time to change the makeup of the unelected Met Council
Having communities pick local elected officials would make the council more accountable and bring it into federal compliance.
Cartoons
Editorial, Dallas Morning News
Dealing with Iran now will take even more strategic thinking
Trump team needs to show precise, steady execution of new way forward.
Cartoons
Editorial
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.
Letters
Readers Write: WCCO Radio and the Minnesota Twins, MNLARS, food shelf visits, farming buffer zones, tobacco settlement, Mother's Day
Things are back where they belong
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