Opinion
The long shadow of 1968
In 1968, the world turned upside down. There was political upheaval on all continents. Rebellions were almost entirely unplanned and unorganized. Popular historian Mark...
Letters | Knock up Danish
(Re: “Why would anyone need a gun or an abortion?” Danish Plan, Feb. 7.) I’d like to see Paul Danish strap on a pregnancy suit for nine months, be induced to vomit every day at least three times for at least three months, then I, as a clinical hypnotherapist, rabbi ...
The prince who read the instruction manual
The Washington press corps is shocked, shocked that Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman (aka MBS) may have ordered the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, a...
Spookinomics
Trump’s White House seems to be both spooked... and spooky.
Check out a 72-page “spookinomics” report issued right before Halloween by his Council of Economic...
Punishing poverty, subsidizing billionaires
In this season of the fall harvest, Congress is proving once again that it is a very poor gardener — it keeps watering the weeds and pulling the flowers. A conference committee is presently meeting to hash out a new, five-year farm bill, and what a hash they’re ...
The West is an exploiter’s paradise
High on a mesa where everyone can see it, a trophy house is going up in the northern Colorado valley where I live. Some...
Koch industries doesn’t just lobby government, it’s becoming the government
The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns over the majority will of the people has always been...
Hope — if we are committed
In the last several years, a new conventional wisdom has emerged in the West about conflict in the Middle East. World leaders, public intellectuals,...
Council acted in Boulder’s best interests
The Peoples League for Action Now (PLAN)-Boulder County supports City Council’s Aug. 22 decision to proceed with the CU South Campus flood mitigation scheme,...
Amazon workers’ win and fragile promise of union revival
This April Fools’ Day, David beat Goliath. It wasn’t a joke. Workers at Amazon’s huge warehouse on Staten Island voted to form a union...
Letters: 1/30/2020
Nullification and sanctuaries
I’m surprised that Paul Danish, who writes Cannabis Corner, didn’t compare Colorado’s effective nullification of federal marijuana laws to immigration nullification or...
City’s cleanup of teahouse site actually deserves kudos
At first I thought it might just be the holiday season or perhaps the sense of optimism that tends to wash over me with the start of each new year. Whatever it was, I initially assumed it was tainting my perspective and clogging my journalistic BS filter. What I ...