Danish Plan
Why Romney lost — and how to win next time
Republicans have started a conversation on why they lost the election and on what they have to do to win the next one...
Civil disobedience in Lafayette and North Dakota
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...
Could the plague bring reform to Congress?
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...
Dirty money and the coronavirus
Money makes the world go ’round — and the coronavirus goes around with it.
Can the virus be spread by dirty money? According to CBS...
What should we do with Edward Snowden?
I’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden...
Boulder’s latest green dreams
The Boulder City Council has formally adopted a series of climate targets that, among other things, call for Boulder getting 100 percent of its...
Nixon on why I like Newt
Harvey and I were just tucking into a new batch of Alice B. Toklas fudge when there was a knock on the door...
The muni’s time has passed
Sometimes conflicts go on for so long that people forget how they started.
Take the fight over whether Boulder should ditch Xcel energy as its...
The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs
By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...
The man who sold Mars
The most interesting man in the world isn’t the guy selling beer for Dos Equis. It’s Elon Musk.
A couple months ago Musk, the founder...
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre
A few days after Nikolas Cruz allegedly perpetrated Valentine’s Day Massacre version 2.0 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, it emerged...
China building world’s tallest skyscraper — in record time
According to the ConstructionWeekOnline website, Broad Sustainable Building, a Chinese company, has broken ground for a new high-rise it is building in Changsha, China...












