Opinion

Who you gonna call? The answer of course depends on who you are. If you’re the oil and gas industry and you need someone...

There is an old political joke in my business in which a reporter who doesn’t much care for a particular candidate shouts out at a press conference, “Do you still beat your wife?” The candidate, who of course has never done such a despicable thing, quickly responds ...

Have you ever heard of the rabbit hunter’s nightmare? A guy dreams that he and a few of his buddies have fanned out across some brushland to scare up and shoot a few hares. They kill a couple, but then, one of the hunting buddies who’d headed down a slope into a ...

A citizen’s willingness to speak truth to power is essential for the well-being of a democracy. Equally essential, though, are citizens willing to risk their personal well-being by standing up to speak truth about power...

What does Smart Track have in common with the Brooklyn Bridge? They both get sold to suckers...

Boulder writer Dan Baum planned to write a book on guns in America which would be “apolitical, nonpolemical cultural anthropology, played sometimes for laughs.” But his timing was bad. His book, Gun Guys: A Road Trip, was published in the middle of a volatile ...

Oh to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom...

Take a Trump time-out for your health So, we’re sitting around talking to friends, and despite the election being over for more than a month,...

Not only does corporate political money shout, scream, bellow and bay in our elections, but afterwards it quietly slips into the back rooms of power to talk softly about payback...

Tony Blair, Britain’s former prime minister, has lashed out at British voters for having “a shared hostility to globalization,” referring to their June 23...

If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump...

The Republican Party is “the most dangerous organization in world history,” argues Noam Chomsky. The GOP controls the entire national government — executive, legislative and...