Danish Plan

The race question

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The U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to expedited consideration of a case challenging the constitutionality of adding a citizenship question — Are you...

Fighting climate change like World War II

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew a lot of snickers a couple weeks ago when she said Millennials and Gen Z “thought the world is gonna end...

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...

Shakespeare, like youth, is wasted on the young. Or is it?

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Had Dana Dusbiber written the op-ed piece she had in the Washington Post last week while I was in high school, I would have nominated her for teacher of the year...

Straight out of CU (and Louisville): A battery that could change...

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This could be huge. Really huge. Let’s hope it is. There’s a startup company in Louisville that started registering on the radar this week. Its name is...

Fight terrorism by creating a gas glut

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Coal is a hydrocarbon that, to the profound annoyance of a lot of people, sustains civilization as we know it. It’s mainly used to generate electricity, and nearly half the electricity used in the U.S. comes from coal-fired power plants. Another 20 percent comes from...

Ben Carson and the ink-stained knaves

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Ben Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools...

Have we accidentally prevented another ice age?

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Sometimes you learn the darnedest things if you read a news story all the way to the end...

Is the world’s most interesting man running for president?

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Forget about the guy who used to sell Dos Equis. The world’s most interesting man is Andrew Yang. OK, maybe he’s the world’s second most interesting...

Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide

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The County Commissioners’ March 17 decision to ban GMOs from Boulder County open space was rigged. Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner had their...

Goodbye to the five-year ‘timeout’

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In what must be the most predictable court decision of the decade, the Colorado Supreme Court last week struck down Longmont’s ban on fracking...

Dirty money and the coronavirus

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Money makes the world go ’round — and the coronavirus goes around with it. Can the virus be spread by dirty money? According to CBS...