Danish Plan

The New York Times columnist David Brooks wants to bring back the draft. Or at least some form of compulsory universal national service. He thinks it will bring Americans back together again...

So you don’t like fracking, huh...

OK, it’s been a lousy year — that much we can probably all agree on — so it would be cool if an old-fashioned,...

A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...

So did the Russians hack the election, and if so, why, and did Trump collude with them? Here’s what I think will come out of...

I have a modest proposal for dealing with Boulder’s traffic mess: outsource the problem to Google and Uber. Boulder’s traffic mess is bad; the worst...

About 20 or 30 years ago, some local peace and justice activists decided to resolve the conflict over abortion by bringing representatives of the...

Me and the Idea Fairy had almost finished airing out the house when there was a knock on the door. It was Richard Nixon,...

Bad news, anti-frackers. The hills are alive with the sound of fracking...

Tipping point alert: October 2013 may go down as the month that American public opinion decisively tipped in favor of legalizing marijuana and consigning 76 years of vicious prohibitionist reefer madness to history’s landfill...

The latest China Plague (at least the fourth to originate in the People’s Republic since 1957) has set off discussion in Congress as to...

Donald Trump may go down in history as the next Abraham Lincoln. No, really. And all because of California. California is seriously thinking about doing...