opinion
Listen: Walz-Johnson race heats up
A sharper contrast in priorities, and style, emerges in the campaign for Minnesota governor. Hear the "Playing Politics" analysis from WCCO Radio's Chad Hartman and the Star Tribune Editorial Board's John Rash and D. J. Tice.
Checking the facts on the price of government
Minnesota data on state and local taxes should inform campaigns.
Sack cartoon: Trump's finances
Latest Sack Cartoon
Trump's finances
BLOGS + COLUMNISTS
Lori Sturdevant
2018 campaign further widening our gender gap
How far apart are men and women? Watch midterm elections for a sign.
John Rash
Rash Report: Enormous partisan divide on media endangers democracy
New Pew poll reflects deep divisions on support for the watchdog role of the press, perceived fairness, trust and other key issues.
Editorial
U.N. climate warning should spur action
Deserving Nobel Peace Prize laureates
Lower health insurance rates are welcome, but what now?
Supreme Court confirmation process needs overhaul
Opinion Exchange
Human activity and the climate: The future looks terrifying; we have to act now
Protecting highway workers demands further action
A nonfact isn't a fact, no matter how many people think it is
The good girl, the adult senator and the Supreme Court hearings
Letters
Readers Write: Campaign ads and the general state of politics, generosity and social problems, public safety in the Twin Cities
Readers Write: People, the climate and the environment; University of Minnesota president's salary; generosity, immigration and homeless encampments; Twin Cities as experienced by visitors
Readers write: Sexual assault, Minneapolis 2040, Enbridge Line 3, Paul Molitor
Readers write: The Jacob Wetterling case, teachers unions, U leadership, the Legislature, campus politics, Paul Molitor, kudos
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Readers Write: Campaign ads and the general state of politics, generosity and social problems, public safety in the Twin Cities
Don't you political types realize you're alienating all of us?
Rare bipartisanship produces a bill to address opioid abuse
Trump is expected to sign off on new weapons to curtail the epidemic.
A nonfact isn't a fact, no matter how many people think it is
Donald Trump, and fact-free critics of his, may troll American minds, but over time, gathering and testing information has more power.
Protecting highway workers demands further action
Crashes in Minnesota construction zones provide stark evidence of the need for safety provisions like those that failed in recent years.
Human activity and the climate: The future looks terrifying; we have to act now
We're young people worried about dire climate-change impacts. The feds aren't doing what's needed, so state and local governments must.
Readers Write: People, the climate and the environment; University of Minnesota president's salary; generosity, immigration and homeless encampments; Twin Cities as experienced by visitors
Learning and forgetting.
Nobel winners are honored for economics as it should be done
Using evidence to inform public policy on climate change.