Opinion

Letters: Jan. 26, 2023

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Praise for Dave Anderson Thanks, Dave ! I suspect you had to be a historian, or anyway teach U.S. history at some level, in some...

Lesson after Amazon union defeat: Keep fighting

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The union defeat at a giant Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, was a big blow to the labor movement. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a surprise...

Is this an extinction-level event for American labor?

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The labor movement has been reviving in recent years but now it faces stormy weather with the presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court...

Colorado is conflicted about cutting its water use

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In Colorado, farmers were required to enroll in a four-state program by March 1 if they want to get paid for fallowing their fields,...

Fighting the Gentleman’s Insurrection

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The House committee to investigate the violent January 6 attempted coup d'etat is in a race against time. If the Democrats lose the House...

CU needs to give Nike a swift kick

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A university should be a critic and conscience of society, according to an old-fashioned view. There are lofty goals on campus plaques and universities...

Could the plague bring reform to Congress?

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The latest China Plague (at least the fourth to originate in the People’s Republic since 1957) has set off discussion in Congress as to...

The myth of the center-right

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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: 2/27/2020

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Weimar Republicans? With a total disregard for history, many (Republican) folks have decided on their own that our Constitution is no longer valid. Their selection...

Trump and the shutdown: The return of the honey badger

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Don’t be surprised if Trump gets himself a bust of Ulysses Grant to go with the bust of Andrew Jackson he keeps in the...

The worker-owned model

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Faced with mounting economic and environmental crises driven by unrestrained capitalism, many people around the world are turning to cooperative enterprise as an answer to social ills. In America, 130 million are members of some kind of cooperative and 13 million ...

Biden’s populism and the stupid debt ceiling

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In March 2020, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders had a rough debate in a sealed CNN studio without a live audience to avoid contagion...