Police officers shouldn't be the ones to enforce traffic laws
Automated technology and unarmed monitors could do most of the job more efficiently and more safely.
Don't make green energy about jobs
What impedes the transition? People don't want to pay more. What brings about higher costs that get passed along to consumers? Labor.
The sensible border fix protectionists will hate
Improving the economies of Central America, thus keeping people from leaving there, will require some of our jobs. Some of our factories.
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Biden is making the right call on Afghanistan
For many reasons, it's time our 20-year involvement comes to a close.
Tiffany Johnson
The white family at Lake Minnetonka and words unspoken
We can't know someone else's truth if we don't speak.
Bruce Peterson
Counterpoint: Beware the dangers of bare-knuckled majority rule
We are a country of diverse citizens with little to keep us united.
David Aquilina
An all-star boycott that called for change long, long ago
In 1965, the American Football League moved its All-Star Game when brave players stood up for justice.
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Biden is making Trump look like a bipartisan unifier
Despite campaign pledge, Democrat doesn't seem willing to negotiate.
Faye Flam, Bloomberg Opinion
An epidemic of unknowns
Public health officials need to be upfront about what is known and what is not.
Nicholas Kristof
From Portland, a liberal's lament
Grand gestures to right history's wrongs are great, but when those acts cross the line into ridiculousness, it gets us nowhere.
Joe Nocera
Bernie Madoff left behind only misery and heartache
I was initially unsympathetic to the plight of those who had lost money with him. That changed.
Trudy Rubin
U.S.-China relationship is in a tough spot, but it's not a 'new Cold War'
Why not? Let Beethoven explain.
Timothy Kudo
I fought in Afghanistan. I still wonder: Was it worth it?
It's not guilt, shame or regret I feel. It's the sense of having done a terrible duty.
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E.U. faces a challenge as banks deal with the pandemic
Individual governments still bear the high cost of financial rescues.
Nicholas Goldberg, Los Angeles Times
I'm feeling symptoms of 'cave syndrome.' Aren't you?
Whether or not you had social anxiety before the pandemic, it's possible you're feeling discomfort at the idea of being back in the same physical space with other people.
John Kass, Chicago Tribune
The whole world is watching Minnesota
Especially Chicago, as we wait for video of a new police shooting.
Thomas L. Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman: We need high wall with big gate on southern border
The solution to our problems there isn't going to come straight from the left — or the right.
Keith C. Burris, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Is there any shot at redemption these days in American lives?
And if it is no longer possible, why should this be so?
Samuel Viskocil
Stephanie Mcgill
We are tired, we are broken, we are hurting
Another death of a young Black man, another conversation with our children, another protest and still our problems are minimized.
Laura Kadwell
We must 'see color' and the humanity behind it
White people must stand as allies with our Black brothers and sisters if problems are to be solved.
Dahleen Glanton
In traffic stop of a Black Army officer in Virginia, echoes of George Floyd
Both cases reveal the police mind-set as an escalator of tension. This seems to take on a particular energy when a Black man is stopped.
Richard Pildes
All those fights over late-arriving mail ballots in 2020 were much ado about little
In Minnesota and Wisconsin, for example, ballots rejected for missing the deadline amounted to 0.04% and 0.05% of the absentee vote, respectively.
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