April 4, 2022, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden learned the hard way last week about the dangers of going off script at the end of a speech heavily criticizing Russian leader Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked war against Ukraine. Read story
April 4, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol last year still hasn’t started overdue public hearings. But it has now produced an important legal opinion from a federal judge stating that the “illegality” of President Donald Trump’s actions after losing the 2020 election “was obvious.” Read story
April 3, 2022, 6:02am Columns
Driving our youngest to school the other morning, I came across a DJ on the radio talking about the “most influential commercials of all time.” Read story
April 3, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Powerful politicians have this bad habit of elevating members of their family — or the family of friends — to high office. Sometimes the chosen kin or friend’s kin has fine qualifications. But the sense that their inside track gives them advantages over others with equally fine qualifications leaves a… Read story
April 3, 2022, 6:01am Columns
When I first met Madeleine Albright in the early 1980s, she was still making dinner for the boys. The boys being the members of what we used to call the “priesthood”: the out-of-power Democratic national security team, which, with the exception of Madeleine, looked very much like the priesthood. Read story
April 3, 2022, 6:01am Columns
A Boeing 737-800 nose-dived into the mountains of southern China last month, killing all 132 aboard and rekindling doubts about an iconic company that has yet to fully recover from its own self-inflicted dive. Read story
April 3, 2022, 6:01am Columns
A publicly aired dispute has arisen between the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the county council regarding funding and staffing shortages. With property crime at crisis levels in the county, this back-and-forth in the media provides a valuable learning experience for the public. County residents have much to gain by… Read story
April 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The horror in Ukraine offered a changed focus from the idiocy in Washington on what used to be normal business. It was gratifying to see almost all our political sides come together over Russia’s cruelty in Ukraine and its threat to the West. Read story
April 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
After years of largely theoretical discussion among Democrats, the idea of a billionaires tax has now become official policy. Read story
April 1, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Sorry, but there is no excuse. Read story
