Opinion

What’s in a name? By definition, the name of a person, place or thing is its personal designation... a distinct way of being known...

Superdelegate Polis Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton by a 2:1 margin in Colorado’s Second Congressional District on Super Tuesday. Jared Polis, who...

The Republican Party is “the most dangerous organization in world history,” argues Noam Chomsky. The GOP controls the entire national government — executive, legislative and...

Although it may be a bit rude to put it this way, climatologist James Hansen is the high priest of global warming alarmism. He once referred to coal trains as “death trains” that would be “no less gruesome than if they were boxcars headed to crematoria, loaded with ...

Watch out for Tom Harris The letter by Tom Harris recently published in the Weekly was part of a misinformation campaign organized by the right...

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The killings at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have provoked much discussion about the freedom of expression. Ed Wasserman, the dean of University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism — who has lived in Paris and read the magazine — ...

Well, I didn’t expect this!        The National Republican Party has published an official policy document showing that the GOP really might be...

Oh to be in Afghanistan again, when the poppies are in bloom...

The Wall Street Journal’s story about last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the ban on corporate and union campaign spending in federal elections contained a detail that the New York Times story managed to overlook...

While our present president’s moral character seems stuck somewhere between boorish and brutish, it’s only fair to note that he also has an aesthetic...

Hurricane Trump presents us with a peculiar sort of national emergency. Every day, the Bullshitter-in-Chief deploys a blizzard of lies, half-truths, conspiracy theories and...