opinion exchange
Don't underestimate the progress of Facebook's Oversight Board
While lawmakers and regulators are gearing up to swing a big hammer, the company's advisory panel is quietly chipping away at the edges.
Police reform and City Question 2: Reject the false choice
You can believe something has to change and still vote no on a vague proposal.
Minneapolis legislators: Vote yes on City Question 2 to expand public safety
Structural change cannot wait any longer.
Florida's gone COVID crazy
DeSantis keeps finding new ways to screw up state's response to the pandemic.
Vote no on City Question 1 — mayor already has huge power
The existing balance rewards both leadership and collaboration but guards against abuse.
Who manages your school district's transportation services? A word of caution.
Hiring consultants may seem to make sense but may end up being costly, both to budgets and reputations.
Let's learn more about guns in airports
The TSA is finding more firearms at checkpoints. Should that make travelers feel more or less safe?
The story of sugar: Black suffering, white windfall
The many ways in which this commodity turned the course of human history.
It's time for a land-use transition near Lake Hiawatha
We need watershed filtration, and 18 holes of golf stand in the way. As a Park Board candidate, I support bold action.
When local news coverage is lost, corporate misconduct goes up
A new study demonstrates that companies became bolder in breaking the law when they didn't face the scrutiny of a newspaper.
Supreme Court faces a huge test on libel law
Two of the justices want to revisit a landmark decision for free expression and may soon get the chance.
We need reinforcements, not Question 2
There's no real reform plan there. What proponents are offering, we already have and must support.
Counterpoint: Diversion transforms pain into healing
The Ramsey County Attorney's Office is pursuing an approach that's been shown effective for young people who commit offenses.
The dread of doomsday, then and now
The Cold War compared with climate change: Observations on giving up, going on and getting the occasional restorative retreat.
Marriage, going the way of the horse and carriage?
There may one day be more unmarried adults than married ones, and that has policy implications.
Rash Report: Big Tech is a growing geopolitical force
The dynamic between governments and technology firms will be a key driver of global politics in the coming years.
To fight fires and save lives, we need police by our side
We emergency responders already see what happens in a city with too few officers. Now imagine that Minneapolis voters approve City Question 2.
Conservatives are happier than liberals. Discuss.
New research raises as many questions as it answers.
Joe Manchin should leave his party, on one condition
Which is that he would do so with a Republican partner, such as Lisa Murkowski, maintaining the Senate's D-R divide but propagating a powerful new centrist bloc.
As a former Minneapolis deputy mayor, I favor Question 2's policing overhaul
The current charter cuts the City Council — and the people its members represent — out of critical decisionmaking.