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Suppressing the right to dissent and the will to resist.
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A Columbia professor’s warning for the University of Minnesota
In the face of Trump’s extortion attempt, summon the fortitude that my school failed to find.
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Try as the Trump administration might, it can’t erase women
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Hays: Is the now-standard approach to prostate cancer too lax? In my case it was.
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The COVID response, five years on: A reflection
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The myth of the political mandate
Claiming to have one is a step on the road to overreach.
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Trump’s border czar doesn’t ‘care what judges think.’ Do you?
There must be broad agreement that we’re a nation of laws. Democracy doesn’t work otherwise.
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Rural Minnesotans need state agency accountability, too
Polluters too often are given a pass.
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