Opinion

Tipping point alert: October 2013 may go down as the month that American public opinion decisively tipped in favor of legalizing marijuana and consigning 76 years of vicious prohibitionist reefer madness to history’s landfill...

Editor’s Note: Long-time Boulder Weekly columnist Paul Danish has made numerous trips to Israel during times of conflict. So we asked him for his opinion of what is happening in the region at this time...

CHARETTE OR CHARADE? I’m a neighbor who lives but a few hundred feet away from the Bohn Farm project, and I was shocked that you...

In 1992, Ross Perot chose a complete unknown to be his presidential running mate. In his first debate, the VP candidate began by asking a question: “Who am I? Why am I here...

Warning: I wrote this at 4 a.m. while feeling pretty angry and cynical, so read on at your own peril. I really do love my country,...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two Princeton economists — Angus Deaton (who just won the Nobel Prize) and Anne Case — revealed that death rates among middle-aged, white, non-Hispanic Americans have increased ...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was a little late leaving for work. As I passed a motel on the 28th Street...

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...

Twenty years ago, as a senior at Boulder High School, I led a small collective of students in a walkout to protest the murder...

What Safer Boulder wants My family recently moved to Boulder with our now seven-month-old daughter. In the 1980s I lived here for several years at...

West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine was a disaster even before it exploded into an underground hell last year, killing 29 miners. A new investigative report by federal safety inspectors found that this mine — owned by the enormously profitable Massey ...

An old saying asserts that falsehoods come in three escalating levels: “Lies, damn lies, and statistics.” Now, however, there’s an even-higher category of lies:...