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Thomas L. Friedman
March 23, 2023
The team from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, from left: Sam Altman, CEO; Mira Murati, chief technical officer; Greg Brockman, president; and Ilya Sut

Thomas L. Friedman: I just saw AI magic, and it's the future, for better and worse

Everything, everywhere is going to change all at once. It's also a Promethean moment.
Julia Angwin
March 23, 2023
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew returns from a break as he testifies during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on the platform’s consumer

If only Big Tech were getting the scrutiny TikTok is enduring

Most charges of its malfeasance could as easily be directed at the U.S. tech giants.
Opinion
March 22, 2023

Unleashing the U.S. military on Mexican drug cartels won't work

That's an open-ended invitation to endless military assaults in the whole hemisphere, including right here at home.
Editorial
March 22, 2023
Students make their way across a snowy University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

The University of Minnesota must do more to cut costs

Significant state support does not mean an open checkbook of taxpayer dollars.
Salim Furth
March 22, 2023
“A legislative proposal (SF 365/HF 685) would make it illegal for most types of investors to buy an owner-occupied single family house, duplex or tr

To aid renters, ease up on investors, landlords

Proposed legislation would make it harder for those who can't afford ownership to live in a single-family neighborhood.
Letters
March 22, 2023

Readers Write: Monticello nuclear plant, PFAS, Donald Trump, Social Security taxation

Don't panic. Really.
Opinion
March 22, 2023

Editorial cartoon: Busted brackets

Susan Sheridan Tucker
March 22, 2023

With sports betting expansion, more help for problem gamblers is key

Legislation needs to include increases in treatment, prevention and research funding to match the proposed expansion of gambling rights.
Eric Anthony Johnson and Adam Duininck
March 22, 2023

We need both direct renter aid, more construction

Policymakers who accept housing supply skepticism risk locking us into a worsening housing affordability crisis.
Stephen J. Lyons
March 22, 2023
This 2019 photo provided by ConocoPhillips shows an exploratory drilling camp at the proposed site of the Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope

Biden's compromise on new oil drilling: Devastating for the Arctic

Overall in the first 25 months of his term, 6,787 drilling leases granted compared with former Trump's 6,695 in the same time frame.
the Editorial Board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 22, 2023
“President Joe Biden is trying to pull a fast one. His approval of the Willow oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope runs contrary to everyt

Biden's compromise on new oil drilling: Cold, hypocritical political calculation

This is the man who said: "No more drilling on federal lands, period. Period, period, period."
Bret Stephens
March 22, 2023
Relatives mourn at a funeral on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, on March 29, 2003. Iraq lost nearly half a million civilians in the war and years of o

Twenty years on, I don't regret supporting the Iraq war

The strong arguments and the weak arguments evaluated in retrospect.
Opinion
March 21, 2023
Editorial cartoon: The (new) Manhattan Project

Editorial cartoon: The (new) Manhattan Project

Nate Clark
March 21, 2023

At 10, MNsure has given Minnesota 'breathing room'

We have a lot to be proud of, and the Legislature needs to stay on top of the program's progress.
Editorial
March 21, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands as they exchange documents during a signing ceremony following t

As Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping bond, so must the West

The summit was about Russia-China ties more than peace in Ukraine.

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