Opinion

Water scarcity is getting scary, and banning long showers is not even a drop in the solution bucket. The biggest water sponge by far is...

It’s hard for me to believe that Boulder Weekly has gone to press a thousand times. It’s also hard for me to believe that I was here for the very first issue nearly 20 years ago. Granted I did take a 14-year hiatus away from the paper between 1997 and 2011, but I was...

Some days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair...

Many Americans don’t pay attention to politics. But they do watch TV. Most likely, more people know who Donald Trump is than they know who their congressional representative is. The Donald is a superstar of pop culture. He is a twotime Emmy Award-nominated “...

How close is Iran to getting the bomb? A lot closer than you might think and a lot closer than the Obama administration has let on. The truth is hiding in plain sight. It’s in the arithmetic of uranium enrichment. The arithmetic shows that the Iranian nuclear ...

Today’s corporate captains like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s innovation geniuses. But, innovation for what purpose? After all,...

An old cowboy aphorism says: “Speak the truth. But ride a fast horse...

It’s one thing for Big Oil frackers to bust into our Earth, our communities and our economic well-being — but the fracking fad is also busting the free speech rights of locals who dare to speak out against it...

I’ve been exchanging emails on gun control with an old friend who also happens to be a gun-fearing, tree-hugging, knee-jerking, banners-snapping-in-the-breeze progressive...

Recently, some 500,000 people around the country suddenly lost their health insurance as 10 of 23 nonprofit health care cooperatives collapsed. Some 80,000 Coloradans were left in the lurch when Colorado HealthOP collapsed. Nearly 40 percent of the people who ...

Remove Confederate statues A great deal of public attention is being focused upon whether statues of Confederate leaders should be taken down or allowed to...

As everyone who travels a lot soon learns, when you stay in the hotels of the big chains, it’s easy to forget where you are, since they’re all alike, offering all the charm of Noplace, USA...