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Opinion: If Trump comes for the University of Minnesota, will its leaders fight or fold?

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Opinion: If Trump comes for the University of Minnesota, will its leaders fight or fold?

I don’t know what happens next, but there’s plenty to do.

Columnists

Burcum: Cosplay Kristi preens instead of fixing a grievous error

Jill Burcum

Columnists

Burcum: Cosplay Kristi preens instead of fixing a grievous error

Jill Burcum

Commentaries

Opinion: Public media is a pillar of our communities. Don’t defund it.

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Opinion: Public media is a pillar of our communities. Don’t defund it.

Commentaries

Opinion: If Trump comes for the University of Minnesota, will its leaders fight or fold?

Commentaries

Opinion: If Trump comes for the University of Minnesota, will its leaders fight or fold?

I don’t know what happens next, but there’s plenty to do.

Commentaries

Opinion: Is space tourism a human rights violation?

Readers Write

Readers Write: Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Contributing Columnists

Dabney: This 420 is going to be lit

Columnists

Olson’s cheers and jeers: When OLA speaks, it’s best we listen

Strib Voices

Vikings

Analysis: How Vikings GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has shown he’s not married to the draft

Ben GoesslingSports reporter

Commentaries

Opinion: If Trump comes for the University of Minnesota, will its leaders fight or fold?

David M. Perry

Business

Ramstad: Readers see early signs of tariffs and miss printed stock tables

Evan RamstadColumnist

Wolves

Scoggins: Wolves must call on calm when the whistles favor the Lakers

Chip ScogginsColumnist

Colleges

Reusse: Baseball players on the move see Johnnies-Tommies rivalry from both sides

Patrick ReusseColumnist

Columnists

Burcum: Cosplay Kristi preens instead of fixing a grievous error

Jill BurcumEditorial Columnist

Editorial Board

Editorial Board

From the Editorial Board: Musk? Access to IRS data? No.

Editorial Board

A public explanation is urgently needed of why the South African-born billionaire and his unvetted techies would require access to sensitive individual financial data.

No Section

From the Editorial Board: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s statue — and stature

Editorial Board

No Section

From the Editorial Board: Defending the Constitution: the president and the limits of power

Editorial Board

No Section

From the Editorial Board: Sorrow, unity the right response to aviation disaster

Editorial Board

Guest Commentary

Commentaries

Opinion: If Trump comes for the University of Minnesota, will its leaders fight or fold?

I don’t know what happens next, but there’s plenty to do.

Commentaries

Opinion: Is space tourism a human rights violation?

Leah Kadwell

Commentaries

Opinion: Public media is a pillar of our communities. Don’t defund it.

Maribel Pérez Wadsworth

Commentaries

Opinion: The unjust detention of Doğukan Günaydın

Leigh Finke

Columns

Columnists

Burcum: Cosplay Kristi preens instead of fixing a grievous error

Jill Burcum

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s prison photo op hits differently now that we know at least one prisoner is wrongly held.

Contributing Columnists

Dabney: This 420 is going to be lit

Clemon Dabney

Columnists

Olson’s cheers and jeers: When OLA speaks, it’s best we listen

Rochelle Olson

Contributing Columnists

Brehm: Does construction season in Minnesota really have to be this miserable?

Andy Brehm

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Opinion Editor

Commentary Editor

Editorial Columnist

Editorial Writer

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Opinion Editor

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Readers Write

Readers Write

Readers Write: Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Welcome to the constitutional crisis.

Readers Write

Readers Write: Vaccines, metal in keys, daylight saving time, rural solar

Readers Write

Readers Write: Harvard funding freeze, state education budget, DEI in the military

Readers Write

Readers Write: Private-school funding, state and federal spending

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Dana Summers on taxes

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Bill Bramhall on Trump’s tariffs

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Dave Granlund on Education Department cuts

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Bill Bramhall on the Democrats and Schumer

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Walt Handelsman on the Democratic Party’s big picture

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Dana Summers on taxes

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Bill Bramhall on Trump’s tariffs

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Dave Granlund on Education Department cuts

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Bill Bramhall on the Democrats and Schumer

Cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Walt Handelsman on the Democratic Party’s big picture

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