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Opinion
November 29, 2022
Editorial cartoon: Kirk Anderson on election wisdom

Editorial cartoon: Kirk Anderson on election wisdom

Tyler Cowen
November 29, 2022
The rich are getting poorer, but that doesn’t seem to be helping the poor, the writer explains.

When the rich get poorer the poor get nowhere

Our focus on inequality may be misplaced.
Letters
November 29, 2022
Demonstrators attend a Cannabis Awareness Day event outside the Minnesota State Capitol in 2018.

Readers Write: Marijuana legalization, Jan. 6 committee, 'Peanuts'

Have you thought this through?
Opinion
November 29, 2022

Name the climate-change culprits: us and oil

Leaders at COP27 couldn't quite manage to say that, which doesn't bode well for finding solutions.
Cedrick Frazier
November 29, 2022
“Voters spoke loudly and clearly about how they want to see public safety addressed moving forward,” Cedrick Frazier writes.

Voters spoke clearly on public safety

Now policymakers need to listen.
Editorial
November 29, 2022
Protesters march along a street during a rally for the victims of a deadly fire as well as a protest against China’s harsh COVID-19 restrictions in

China's COVID — and legitimacy — crises

The autocratic response to the virus shows the limits of China's, and other's, repressive governing model.
Jeffrey D. Willius
November 29, 2022
The bright street outside outside a south Minneapolis home in 2019 after LED lights were installed. A proposal by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for $9

Editorial Counterpoint: Please don't blue-minate Mpls. streets

Consider more than just the city's budget — residents' psyches depend on it.
Michelle Goldberg
November 29, 2022
Nick Fuentes, a right-wing podcaster, center, speaks to supporters of President Donald Trump during a pro-Trump march, Nov. 14, 2020, in Washington. F

The mainstreaming of antisemitism

With the rise of antisemites in power, the boundary between the intolerable and the acceptable is shifting.
Letters
November 28, 2022
A forensic expert exhumes bodies that showed indications of having been executed from a communal grave in Pravdyne, a village near Kherson, Ukraine, o

Readers Write: Ukraine, Fairview-Sanford merger, nursing, Minneapolis schools

Giving up means death.
Opinion
November 28, 2022

Ticketmaster's latest debacle

U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee deserves some answers on the Taylor Swift fiasco.
Faye Flam
November 28, 2022
The flu, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and adenovirus are surging in the Northern Hemisphere.

The dance of the viruses

Why so many are sick this season ... maybe.
Opinion
November 28, 2022
Editorial cartoon: Dave Whamond on Twitter

Editorial cartoon: Dave Whamond on Twitter

Editorial
November 28, 2022

Using cameras to catch Minneapolis speeders

They can be an effective tool, but the city needs a smart policy that will win at the Legislature.
From the Economist
November 28, 2022
President Joe Biden listens as Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 8, celebra

Biden's second term mission: rebalance the courts

Majority Senate Democrats will have time on their hands to confirm nominations.
William Cory Labovitch
November 27, 2022
Minnesota is poised to legalize marijuana in 2003.

How Minnesota got to marijuana legalization politically

Democrats are going to be the ones to pass it. But third parties created the sometimes perverse effects leading to it.

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