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"The only era I've known is one where school shootings in the U.S. are as common and seemingly inevitable as filing taxes," Matty Weightman writes.

"For better or worse, change is a constant," Doug Grow writes.

"Waste, fraud and abuse. They're more than just talking points for Republican candidates," Rochelle Olson writes.

Disagreement cannot mean death.

"I hate saying I told you so, but somebody has to say it," Robin Washington writes.

The assassin took aim at the American experiment itself, David French writes.

Rochelle Olson's weekly roundup covers the University of Minnesota Teamsters strike, Florida vaccine mandates, an expensive theft on Lake Minnetonka and more.

He was one of the era's most effective practitioners of persuasion, Ezra Klein writes.

If violence wins, we will cease to be free.

"I did not want to see the last seconds of Charlie Kirk's life. But it was tragically unavoidable," Jill Burcum writes.