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'Tortured, bureaucratic nonsense': Recount in California's 16th District will go into a 3rd week
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mystery, sniping and challenged ballots — all swirl around the extraordinary recount in the Congressional District 16 race as it drags into its third week.
Who will emerge the victor — if anyone �...Read more
Divest-or-ban law rattles TikTok influencers pushing pro-Biden content
WASHINGTON — When President Joe Biden returned to the White House after delivering his State of the Union address, 23-year-old TikTok influencer Awa Sanneh joined roaring cheers alongside administration staffers gathered...Read more
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, forever changing baseball and society.
Robinson was Black, and the integration of all-white major league baseball was perhaps ...Read more
Trudy Rubin: In Europe, they cheer passage of Ukraine aid but worry about possible Trump future
BRUSSELS — On April 19, I watched an audience of European and American political officials and strategic experts pay rapt attention as U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told them Congress would enact a Ukraine aid package that ...Read more
Editorial: A middle ground in the Trump immunity case
Donald Trump has made sweeping claims of presidential immunity in an effort to fend off two criminal prosecutions by special prosecutor Jack Smith. Smith, on the other hand, contends that the office of the presidency ...Read more
Editorial: Immune to logic: Donald Trump's nonsensical argument before the Supreme Court
Thursday, the American public witnessed — or heard, rather, given the Supreme Court’s stubborn refusal to allow cameras in its courtroom — a bewildering moment. We heard as the lawyer for a former president of the ...Read more
Editorial: In killing this bill, California Democrats proved they're lap dogs for Gov. Newsom
California Democrats are demonstrating that they view Sacramento as their own little club, where duly-elected Republicans have no power. This malignant feature of California’s one-party state results in a legislature ...Read more
Stephen L. Carter: The left's calls for Sonia Sotomayor to retire are absurd
The left’s absurd calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down so that President Joe Biden can name a younger replacement should be roundly condemned. To be sure, such pressure is an American tradition in the never-...Read more
Marc Champion: It's time Israel put hostages over revenge in Gaza
Over 200 days into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to decide what matters more: extracting ultimate revenge on Hamas, and in the process all other Palestinians in Gaza, or ...Read more
Editorial: Idaho Republican legislators wouldn't fix abortion law. It's up to the Supreme Court
Idaho’s medical community has been saying for the past two years — since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — that Idaho’s strict abortion ban is jeopardizing medical care when the health of the mother ...Read more
Editorial: Taiwan policy must be a campaign issue
Opinion editor's note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom.
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Of the four foreign policy bills that passed the U.S. House last ...Read more
F.D. Flam: A century of bad choices will haunt Earth for 100,000 years
One of the many things to appreciate about our home planet is that buried in its layers of rock is a kind of time machine. These strata tell us so much about our tumultuous history of glaciers, volcanoes and asteroid ...Read more
Francis Wilkinson: Want to keep Trump from dismantling democracy? Compromise
Earlier this month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on Stephen Colbert’s television talk show and delivered an eloquent plea for U.S. government policy toward Gaza to be guided by human rights and democratic ...Read more
Editorial: A really bad movie: Harvey Weinstein victory at Court of Appeals is a defeat for justice
As of Thursday, under New York State law, the imprisoned rapist Harvey Weinstein serving a 23-year sentence in upstate’s Mohawk Correctional Facility, became a completely innocent man, having his conviction for sex ...Read more
Editorial: Sending armed troops to quash peaceful campus protests is a dangerous idea
On Wednesday during a visit to Columbia University, House Speaker Mike Johnson warned that if the wave of protests against Israel’s U.S.-funded war in Gaza on college campuses, including UCLA and USC, is not contained ...Read more
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
Justice Samuel Alito thinks presidents are kings and must be protected against those who would disrupt their peaceful retirement.
What planet is he living on?
In his questioning on Thursday in the Trump immunity case, ...Read more
When Moral Hygiene Becomes a Lethal Mistake
Historical analogies rarely carry much weight, especially in a time when so much about politics has changed so rapidly. To compare what is happening in 2024 to events that occurred over half a century earlier hardly ...Read more
A New Chicago Mayor Faces Similar Iissues to the Ones that Dogged Richard J. Daley in 1968
When a friend reminded me that it’s almost time for the Democratic National Convention, I wanted to say, “That’s OK, I’m good with the last one.”
But, I didn’t. I’m too much of a political junkie to ignore ...Read more
Mexican presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez readies for a must-win debate
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez is running out of opportunities to mount a serious challenge against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s anointed successor, trailing by a ...Read more
Biden enacts most sweeping reform of gun exports in decades
WASHINGTON — To curb the use of U.S.-made civilian guns in crimes and human rights abuses abroad, the Biden administration will require exporters to better vet their customers and tighten sales to 36 countries deemed “...Read more
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