Danish Plan

The beheading in Moore, Okla., last month brought it all back. She wasn’t a raving beauty, just a friendly, freckle-faced girl with a warm grin and a presence that was unforgettable. She would make you feel good the second she walked into a room. She had a great ...

Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...

Talk about getting hoist with your own petard. Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth...

How will America’s great social distancing experiment end? Just guessing, but I suspect toward the end of April, millions of Americans will say, in...

Another year, another record. That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels...

I spent some time last Sunday reading news stories about the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was formally unveiled in Berlin the same day...

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...

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

During the Afghan and Iraq wars, stories would occasionally move on the wires announcing the deaths of “contractors.” The stories usually went to pains to point out that the deceased were “civilian contractors...

The protests that have been sweeping the Middle East for the past month spread to the Middle West last week...

The ballots go out on October 12. That’s when the shitstorm begins...

In trying to explain the sound ass-kicking Colorado voters administered to Prop CC, the Denver Post’sAlex Burness offered the following reflection: “For Democrats, it was...