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Michael Hiltzik
What the complacency caucus gets wrong about the Georgia voting law
Meanwhile, don't give Coca-Cola, Delta too much credit for resistance. They were meek when it mattered most.
Nicholas Kristof
How to partly boycott the 'Genocide Olympics' in Beijing
Let the athletes play — and use their leverage to speak. Let the Games be broadcast. But corporations and public officials: Stay away.
Francisco Lara-García
The border can't be our only concern. We need an immigrant integration policy.
The help we offer newcomers is patchwork at best. Neither political side is focused on this.
Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune (TNS)
Why don't Chicago's mass shootings count?
Other American cities get headline treatment when tragedy stikes, but in predominantly Black neighborhoods it's treated as routine.
Letters
Readers Write: Walz's emergency powers, Derek Chauvin trial, downtown Minneapolis
Restricting rights is the issue.
Editorial
Sports has a place in politics
We should welcome the weight it throws around, even if imperfectly, on issues like voter rights.
Mark A. Young
Counterpoint: In truth, overpopulation is blighting human lives
We don't need more people on the planet, we need to change the economic system.
Jamelle Bouie
Georgia's voting law: If it's not Jim Crow, what is it?
It's at least Jim Crow-adjacent. Then, as now, there was a web of disenfranchisement, but not an explicit statute that said: 'Black people can't vote.'
James M. Lawson Jr., Daniel B. Cornfield and Dennis C. Dickerson
Nashville model of social change is replicable for today's movements
It shows that clearly articulated objectives are crucial to building credibility.
the Editorial Board of the Baltimore Sun
A death like George Floyd's is what happens when police dismiss the community
What if they had heeded the cries from those people begging Derek Chauvin to let up and the other officers to intervene?
Editorial
U.S. Capitol needs stronger police force
Last week's attack, just two months after Jan. 6 invasion, is another tragedy.
Cartoons
Karin Winegar
Minnesota is poised to lead an environmental breakthrough
Pending bills would give communities local control over pesticides, safeguard protected wildlife areas and more.
Letters
Readers Write: Derek Chauvin trial, climate change, moving the All-Star Game
Open criticism heralds change.
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