Opinion
It’s the health care, stupid
The United States currently has the highest per-capita health care expenditures in the world, yet we rank last among 11 developed countries for health...
Letters: April 27, 2023
THE ANSWER TO GUN VIOLENCE
Let’s imagine a gun control paradise where the Second Amendment is repealed, and all privately owned guns are outlawed, and...
Letters 9/1/22
A model for renters tax credit
Keeping renters appraised of their rights is a good preventative measure. (see Unrepentant Tenant, “Resources for Boulder renters” Aug....
Workers at Walmart cite poor conditions
This month, something quite remarkable happened in America. Hundreds of Walmart workers who don’t have a union stood up to the company, knowing that it has a long history of illegally retaliating against its employees. In a high unemployment economy, they went on ...
What if antibiotics no longer work?
Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes...
Newt Gingrich: the spawn of ‘Citizens United’
In its Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court upended our democratic elections by decreeing that corporations and über-wealthy individuals can dump unlimited sums of cash into campaigns to elect their favored candidates. Astonishingly, Justice Anthony Kennedy ...
Don’t forget about NAFTA
By now it’s well understood that Trump will do anything to help corporations make money. The current effort to rewrite the North American Free...
How is Trump like Humpty-Dumpty?
Comandante Trump, El Jefe, the gringo strongman!
That’s the image our current commander-in-chief seems to be cultivating. He has surrounded himself with generals, cavalierly threatened...
The right wing loves insurance-company looting of Medicare
We are inundated with countless TV commercials by private insurance companies saying their Medicare Advantage (MA) plans are so much better and more affordable...
Letters | Corporations vs. people
Correction: A May 19 story, “We the corporations,” incorrectly reported the number of signatures that have been collected by the Move to Amend initiative. More than 111,700 people have signed the petition...
Nixon and Beelzebub explain how to form a more perfect union
The Idea Fairy and I had just polished off an excellent plate of edibles when there was a knock at the door. It was...