Opinion Exchange

Can we fight shrinkflation? Yes, here's how.

Not by cracking down on corporations, but by improving communication.
Editorial

Strengthen firearm storage laws

A proposed expansion of Minnesota law would help prevent accidental deaths, and it could be enough to stop some suicides.
Opinion Exchange

Thoughts from the Star Tribune's new community engagement director

We aim to invite more people to be part of the conversation.
Opinion

Editorial cartoon: Kids are safe from TikTok, but not guns

Editorial

Systemic insecurity: Saving Twin Cities light rail

The network has developed public safety and perception problems that change its very nature. That can be fixed. A special report from the Star Tribune Editorial Board.
Opinion Exchange

Trump doesn't deserve blanket immunity

Opinion Exchange

What does Anoka-Hennepin really teach about DEI?

Editorial

What's lost when newspapers die

Opinion Exchange

Editorial counterpoint: Embrace the shift in public notices

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Opinion
April 26
Editorial cartoon: New campus mascot

Editorial cartoon: New campus mascot

We’re putting out the call for new commentary writers.
Opinion
New Voices
updated 18 hours 2 mins. ago
Star Tribune Opinion's latest feature spotlights commentaries written by first-time contributors to our pages. These thinkers, readers and opinionated community members from across Minnesota have something to say and, we hope, inspire you to join the conversation, too.
Opinion Exchange
April 26
"We can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on expanding light rail to the western suburbs without realizing how impactful a modest fraction of that

Should Metro Mobility even be thought of as supplemental?

Letters
April 26
A sign calling attention to the conflict in Gaza rests against a tent at an encampment on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridg

Readers Write: Pro-Palestinian protests, sex offender program

Twin Metals underground mine location: Aerial view of the area that would be mined by Twin Metals.
Special report Mining and the BWCA: Not this location
updated 13 hours 53 mins. ago
The Star Tribune Editorial Board has taken the position that the Twin Metals copper-nickel mining project near the BWCA should not proceed. That editorial and others leading up to it are collected here. Responses will be added as they are published.
Opinion Exchange
April 26
“We need more political parties that play a meaningful role in governance,” writes Maxwell Stearns is the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of L

Imagine a U.S. with a parliamentary system …

Letters
April 25
A voter marks a ballot during Minnesota's presidential primary in Andover on March 5.

Readers Write: Caucus system, state Sen. Nicole Mitchell, voting for RFK Jr.

Editorial
April 25
Students check their phones between classes at Carlton High School.

Turn off cellphones in state's classrooms

Opinion
April 25
Editorial cartoon: Supreme Court's medical expertise

Editorial cartoon: Supreme Court's medical expertise

Opinion Exchange
April 25

How many hostages are still alive? Hamas doesn't seem to know

Opinion Exchange
April 25
Home values in North Minneapolis have been depressed due to the high numbers of foreclosed homes on the market.

The tale of two cities' assessed property values

Opinion Exchange
April 25
Gov. Tim Walz displays the "trans refuge" bill after he signed it into law on Thursday morning in St. Paul. It was the first of three progressive prio

The best direction for gender care after the Cass Review

Opinion Exchange
April 24

Cut down on electronic waste in Minnesota

Opinion Exchange
April 24
"From the economy, to education, to crime, to folks relocating beyond our borders, Minnesota is going the wrong direction and needs a new path forward

In Minnesota, statistical gloom amid the hope of a progressive-led boom

Opinion Exchange
April 24
"In every corner of our state, rural ambulance services are grappling with dwindling resources, mounting costs and an uncertain future," John Fox writ

Pass $120 million in emergency funding for rural EMS in Minnesota now

Opinion
April 24
Editorial cartoon: Anything but the news

Editorial cartoon: Anything but the news

Editorial
April 24
People go to the market to shop in Taipei, Taiwan, on March 31.

Taiwan policy must be a campaign issue

Opinion Exchange

The Opinion section is an exchange of ideas produced by the Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom.