Opinion
How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government?
Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” ...
The myth of the center-right
Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio says that too many pundits and Democratic leaders pose a false choice “between fighting for our progressive values or...
Letters: 6/2/16
Activism matters
Joel Dyer, in all his wisdom, did it again with the recent cover article The two protests that Joel covered on May...
Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington
It’s odd that Washington Republicans are so loudly crowing about their passage of the Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax law. Odd because the people outside of Washington...
Letters | We have other priorities
CORRECTION: A March 3 letter to the editor from Carah Wertheimer of Boulder mistakenly carried the name Sarah Krcal of Lafayette. Krcal’s real letter appears in this issue, edited for length...
Lessons from Nixon and Kent State
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming
Four dead in Ohio.
— Neil Young, “Ohio”
Something ugly...
The Highroad
The Highroad boulderweekly.com/highroad Big banks gouge customers for fun, profit...
Congress should lower drug costs, but look beyond numbers
In Congress, policy negotiations often center on a couple questions: how much does the bill cost and how much does the bill save? But...
Ethics and congress critters
Do you — or anyone — really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing on ethics in order to do your job ethically...
Sandy Weill’s apt epitaph: Pigs fly
Why isn’t Sandy Weill treated as a crook? He not only violated the law, but arrogantly flaunted it. Yet the system treats the criminal acts of Wall Street Royals like him as the by-product of “financial innovation.” Far from criminal, you see, Weill simply suffers ...
