Opinion
Trump’s tax-cut scam worked perfectly
Remember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending...
Koch brothers out to conquer the countryside
It’s easy to become mesmerized by The Donald Show in this year’s political circus, but it’s time for progressives to focus on the outer...
Signs of the times?
How does one reconcile the advent of cryptocurrencies, proposals for Universal Basic Income, and another expensive CU employee buy-out? Perhaps the question is, how...
Letters: 10/25/18
Vote for Weiser
Phil Weiser is pro-choice.
George Brauchler is not pro-choice.
They are both running for Colorado Attorney General, a role that some have described as...
How do coal barons get away with murder?
Coal mining is a filthy business. Literally.
Miners not only get covered in the soot of their trade, but also suffer the suffocating death called...
Front porch politics
If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously progressive white working-class people into mindless Trump...
What about our farmers?
Earlier this year, in the midst of a trade war with China, President Donald Trump announced a $16 billion agriculture bailout, telling Americans, via...
Towards a smarter, more progressive approach to trade
These pages have written extensively over the past several months about an important topic: trade. Numerous commentaries and letters of varying levels of veracity have been printed. Unfortunately, while I admire the persistence and attention paid to this topic, the ...
Clinging to privilege
On Saturday, March 6, hundreds of CU Boulder students played part in a maskless, bacchanal spring celebration in the midst of a pandemic that...
The dark side of patriotism
Vigorous support for one’s country.”
That is the simple definition of “patriotism” according to the dictionary. What sticks out to me is how patriotism,...
