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Cass R. Sunstein
January 7, 2020
FILE - In this June 11, 2019, file photo a pump jack operates in an oil field in the Permian Basin in Texas. New Mexico Democrats pushed forward a pro

Hate the donor, love the donation

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Letters
January 7, 2020
Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a fun

Readers Write: The assassination of Qassem Soleimani, carbon emissions, defining the turn of a decade

How, exactly, are we safer with Soleimani dead?
Letters
January 7, 2020
In this Nov. 14, 2019 photo, Jon Combes holds his bottle of buprenorphine, a medicine that prevents withdrawal sickness in people trying to stop using

Readers Write: Addiction treatment, tensions with Iran, causes of death

Our addiction treatment model is not working.
Editorial
January 6, 2020

Restraint is called for as Trump threatens Iran

His threat to attack cultural sites is an especially troubling escalation as tension grows in Mideast.
Editorial
January 6, 2020

A boost for nutrition and White Earth Nation

Reservation project combines modern meal kits, traditional foods.
Cartoons
January 6, 2020
Sack cartoon: Trump and the clicker

Sack cartoon: Trump and the clicker

Thomas L. Friedman
January 6, 2020
FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force, attends an annual rally commemorating the annive

Thomas L. Friedman: Trump killed Iran's most overrated warrior

An assessment of Soleimani's failures — and of how politics plays out in the Middle East.
Editorial
January 6, 2020
President Donald Trump, center, shakes hands with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto looks on after they

Sorting through winners, losers in USMCA agreement

Minnesotans should be relieved that Trump forged agreement with Canada, Mexico.
Jackie Schneider
January 6, 2020
This Feb 23, 2019, photo shows the inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

What to know about cyberattacks

Iran can use them against the U.S. That's not nearly as bad as it sounds.
Opinion
January 4, 2020
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Editorial cartoon: Drew Sheneman on bag restrictions

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January 3, 2020
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Editorial cartoon: Walt Handelsman on Australia's fires

Editorial, San Diego Union-Tribune
January 3, 2020

Coming to terms with the myth of online privacy

California law, while flawed, is a signal that tech firms are being watched.
Richard Greelis
January 3, 2020
County Attorney Mike Freeman introduced the office's first ever emotional support animal, a golden doodle named Barrett. Barrett's trainer, Kathryn Ne

Barrett the facility dog could do great things for Hennepin County Attorney's Office

But first he has to be trained, and that's no small feat.
Hal Brands, Bloomberg News (TNS)
January 3, 2020
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020, file photo, U.S. Army soldiers from the 82nd Airborne board a C-17 aircraft at Fort Bragg, N.C., to be deploye

Trump's Iran policy spirals toward control

By killing prominent leaders, the U.S. hopes to demonstrate how much Iran has to lose. But that wager might not pay off.
Amelia Rayno
January 3, 2020
Almost 1,000 men, women and children were murdered in 1981 at El Mozote by U.S. government-sponsored Salvadoran troops. A monument displays their name

The forgotten roots of — and responsibility for — a diaspora

Whatever it is the U.S. doesn't want today, it's a boomerang in part, as evidenced by a visit to the site of a 1981 massacre in El Salvador.
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