Perspectives

Attack on 14th Amendment: It%uFFFDs wrong

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  by Gregory Rodriguez...

University of Colorado response to Buffs football scholarship article

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Regarding “Backdoor Buff Bucks” (cover story, Nov. 8), I would like to set the record straight on a few points, some of which may have been miscommunicated to the Weekly by me as CU-Boulder spokesperson...

The Zinn witch hunt continues

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In 2010, after historian Howard Zinn died, then-Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sat down at his computer and started a quiet witch hunt with a flurry of emails to top state education officials. This only became public this summer after the Associated Press obtained copies...

A baby step out of the shadows

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Outside a 300,000-squarefoot building in a run-down Aurora neighborhood on Aug. 5, a lively, ethnically diverse crowd of some 80 people marched, sang and chanted...

Zombie conservatives at the schoolhouse door

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Last week, the president delivered an education speech that fell somewhat short of the standard set by Lenin in his address at the Finland Station, launching the Bolshevik Revolution. In fact, Barack Obama told Americas schoolchildren to work hard, respect their ...

Health care, one more time

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On the most important domestic issues of the day, our two political parties don’t merely lay out competing arguments; they inhabit alternative realities...

Passing the TPP: Not so fast

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A rebellion is breaking out in the Democratic Party, but it’s not like the 1960s when the party was torn apart over the Vietnam War and civil rights for blacks. In those days, Democrats were united in support of the New Deal/Great Society approach to economics. Today...

Washington must prioritize jobs, not cuts

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This is a dangerous time. In Washington, the country’s Richie Riches are stirring up a panic about a so-called “fiscal cliff.” If they succeed, we’ll get a “grand bargain” that will give them millions in corporate welfare while America’s meager “social safety net” is...

Limit corporate welfare

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Tea party politicians are denounced for their dangerous antics, but their doomsday warnings about profligate government spending are the conventional wisdom of the so-called “moderates” of big business, the mainstream media and too many politicians of both parties (...

For kids’ health, Ronald McDonald and Joe Camel both deserve the...

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As part of an effort to snuff out youth smoking, selling candy-, fruit- and spice-flavored cigarettes is now illegal in the United States...

The secret history of Boulder’s socialist book store

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American young people (or those aged 18 to 29) have a more positive attitude toward socialism than to capitalism, according to a recent Pew poll. We are in the middle of “an era of tumult and protest” against global capitalism in the U.S. and abroad, argues ...

Taking care of our least fortunate

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In 1992, Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Boulder Mayor Leslie Durgin for saying, “We don’t want to become the kind of community where everyone is white, upper-middle class. ... We really want to have a diverse community...