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U.S. was wrong to block the U.N. resolution on breast-feeding.
Bullying behavior, specious rationale undercut our role as a world leader.
Editorial, Rochester Post-Bulletin
Unauthorized expansion of state lottery a bad bet
Selling tickets on a smartphone app is called "legally dubious."
Letters
Readers Write: 'Fear-based' police training, Trump at NATO summit, student debt, Minneapolis 2040 plan
"Fear-based" police training must end.
Laura Rosenberger
Trump says there's a crisis at NATO. He's right. And the crisis is him.
He provided the damaging theatrics. But the declaration for this week's summit is a cogent reminder of the work NATO does every day, invisible to most of us, to stop threats before they land on America's doorstep.
Editorial
The Bell Museum is back and better than ever
It shows what wise government and one persistent legislator can do.
Cartoons
Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald (TNS)
Blacks in America: Plain tired of having to explain ourselves
Five years after Trayvon Martin, it's still a challenge just going about your day while black.
Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg News (TNS)
Let's just embrace reality and elect Supreme Court justices
I'd rather we had a court that didn't occupy so much political space. But that's not where we are.
Letters
Readers Write: Thai cave rescue, NATO funding, Supreme Court nomination, breast-feeding vs. formula, Met Council (via Metro Transit) and bus service
Why the Thai cave story captivated me.
Katherine Godfrey
![Reuben Crow Feather, with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, helped lead a round dance in a powwow Saturday at the Eaux Claires Music and Art Festival. ]](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/6NOP3AZ4GHDWQQLZ3HJSYZTASY.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Counterpoint: An Eaux Claires music festival without famous headliners is?
An opportunity to feel wonder and surprise.
Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Trump oversold handshake deal with North Korea
He assumed his charm would win over Kim Jong Un, but it didn't work.
Letters
Readers Write: U.S. Supreme Court nomination, breast-feeding vs. formula, guns and dementia, Herbert Marcuse
Allow no Trump appointment without a promise of recusal.
Steve Chapman
Oh, come on. No one's a strict originalist.
It's not possible, because, by nature, laws and the Constitution require interpretation. The court's conservatives bow to this reality when it suits them.
John Kass, Tribune Content Agency
How to maintain the republic? Originalist justices like Brett Kavanaugh
All that liberal hysteria shows you where we'd be without it.
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