Danish Plan

Supreme Court gives McCain-Feingold a thumpin’

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The Wall Street Journal’s story about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the ban on corporate and union campaign spending in federal elections contained a detail that the New York Times story managed to overlook...

The president’s astonishing chutzpa

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President Obama has been flitting around the country intimating that U.S. natural gas reserves have tripled in the last three years as a result of his administration’s policies. His chutzpa is astonishing...

Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president?

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 Is Sarah Palin smart enough to be president...

Gaza and ‘game changers’

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Editor’s Note: Long-time Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish has made numerous trips to Israel during times of conflict. So we asked him for his opinion of what is happening in the region at this time...

Macron and les deplorables

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French President Emmanuel Macron returned to Paris from the G20 Summit, where he reaffirmed France’s commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, to discover a...

Civil disobedience in Lafayette and North Dakota

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The latest bright idea to emerge from Boulder County’s intrepid anti-frackers is to get the City of Lafayette to legalize “non-violent” civil disobedience and...

Trump and the shutdown: The return of the honey badger

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Don’t be surprised if Trump gets himself a bust of Ulysses Grant to go with the bust of Andrew Jackson he keeps in the...

Democracy dies in darkness — among other places

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Early last year the Washington Post, after vetting about 500 candidate slogans, adopted as its motto the phrase “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” An interesting choice,...

A modest proposal to begin updating our national symbols

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Symbols matter. That’s why the time has come to replace the tired old bald eagle on the great seal of the United States and in other patriotic venues with a critter more in keeping with the lifestyle, values and morals of 21st-century America: The rat...

Double your bet on ClimateSmart

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About this time last year, Charlie at Mesa Plumbing called with the dreaded news: The parts needed to overhaul my boiler were no longer carried by the gift shop at the National Museum of Pre-Columbian Plumbing and Heating."You really need to get one of those new ...

Gaza: The usual suspects and the usual lies

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Whenever Hamas’s excitable boys in Gaza pick a fight with Israel — as they did in 2008, 2014 and this spring — it plays...

A modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington

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I have a modest proposal for cleaning up the mess in Washington...