Danish Plan

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,...

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Odds are that this week or next the Palestinians will unilaterally declare their independence. What happens next...

What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...

There is a good historical parallel for the Western world’s reaction to the Syrian Civil War: The Western world’s reaction to the Spanish Civil War...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, 88 percent of the 2011 U.S. corn crop consists of genetically engineered varieties — either herbicide-tolerant types like Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn, or insect-resistant types ...

Here’s a curious little detail about this year’s presidential race that’s been hiding in plain sight in the polls since January and ignored by...

Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish is in Israel and will be writing several pieces in the coming weeks about his personal observations on the ongoing conflict there...

The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...

Cage match! Trump and Cruz are down in the mud and the blood and the beer, punching and kicking and clawing and generally trying to...

Soldier of Fortune Magazine, liberal Boulder’s favorite mad aunt in the attic, will put out its 35th anniversary issue next month. So in honor of the occasion I thought I’d share some SOF stories...

Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep. Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...