Opinion
The Bernie Sanders revolution is just getting started
The Bernie for President campaign is over, but the political revolution that he launched against corporate rule is just beginning.
Sanders and...
Stopping massacres: What won’t work and what will
What can be done to keep whackos like Jared Loughner from trying to assassinate congressmen, senators and presidents...
Economists find creative solution to US unemployment
Excellent news, people. Let me put it to you as a number: 8.7 million...
The real Safer Boulder
By Brooke Harrison, PhD and Leslie Chandler, Safer Boulder members
Who is Safer Boulder? Safer Boulder is a nonpartisan grass-roots organization committed to supporting public...
Banned in the USA
In her best-selling novel Speak, young-adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the...
Two good ideas for banking reform
If either party in Washington were to get serious about reining in Wall Street greedheads, here are two good ideas for achieving that. The first comes from Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who, ironically, has introduced a bill that is the essence ...
The debate over ‘birthright’ citizenship: Distracting voters from real issues
In his latest assault on our federal immigration policy in the lead-up to the midterm elections, President Trump proposed abolishing “birthright” citizenship, whereby children...
The new American aristocracy
Multibillionaire brothers Charles and David Koch want to supplant America’s core democratic principle of majority rule — i.e., the will of the people —...
Failure to extend drilling moratorium sparks talk of recall election for...
If the emails crossing my screen these days are to be believed, then last week’s vote by the Boulder County commissioners to allow the county’s moratorium on oil and gas drilling to expire is shaping up to be the Lexington/Concord of the great fracking showdown...
Democrats and race
In a major American city, the mayor closes 50 public schools in impoverished minority neighborhoods and tries to destroy the teachers’ union. Parents conduct a month-long hunger strike to keep their last neighborhood school open. The mayor closes many public health ...
A bright spot for Boulder renters on repairs
In my last column (Unrepentant Tenant, “Do tenants have a right to a habitable home?”, Sept. 8, 2022), I wrote about the history of...
The nonviolent history of American independence
Independence Day is commemorated with fireworks and flag-waving, gun salutes and military parades... however, one of our nation’s founding fathers, John Adams, wrote, “A...
