Opinion

Almost 1 million American jobs were lost to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), according to a narrow U.S. government measure. More are...

In recent weeks the mental health crisis devastating our nation’s youth has been getting much-needed attention from the local and national press. For young...

There has been an ongoing debate about the differences between enabling and helping an addict. When a family is confronted with the situation where...

The Republicans control all of the elected branches of the federal government, but they play the victim. There is a good reason for that....

We are sick and tired of being sick and tired. — Mississippi civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hammer  In the 1960s, black people demanded to...

One of the most thought-provoking contrasts of the Right Here Right Now UN human rights climate summit CU Boulder hosted last fall was between...

In Congress, policy negotiations often center on a couple questions: how much does the bill cost and how much does the bill save? But...

The Trump-Putin controversies have stirred memories of the Cold War. But the world has changed. The Soviet Union was a peculiar animal. The regime emerged from...

An open letter to Boulder City Council, especially Matt Applebaum I recently shared a video of a homeless woman at a Capitol rally with...

Yes on Prop 112 As more and more peer-reviewed studies are being reported (since 2013, more than 700), fracking is clearly and conclusively documented as...

On CU’s visiting scholar CU Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano cited the First Amendment in his reasoning for not firing John Eastman, the visiting professor who...

I can’t remember how many times I’ve started off a column or news story with my favorite Harry S. Truman quote, but it’s happened a lot. There is just something about the short memory of Boulder County politicians and some residents that seems to keep it relevant. So...