April 2, 2021, 6:03am Columns
Dear Republicans: Let's just say this plainly. You are a people lacking integrity and honor. Read story
April 1, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Back in September, I wrote about how in the midst of the pandemic, there was a lot of good news that wasn’t getting much coverage. Read story
March 31, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Sometimes in politics, it seems as though we are through the looking glass like Alice, where Humpty Dumpty contends that when he uses a word “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Read story
March 30, 2021, 6:01am Columns
When he was running for president in 2016, Donald Trump said he was going to build a 1,000-mile concrete wall, maybe 30 feet high, on the southern border, and that Mexico would pay for it. The idea, meant to halt gobs of illegal immigration, was outlandish, empty-headed and abandoned. Read story
March 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Two stories I’ve been thinking about make clear that Republicans have problems Donald Trump’s departure has not begun to solve. The problems are not with the Democrats. They are with science. Read story
March 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
“This is a violent civilization -- if civilization’s where I am.” -- Gil Scott- Heron, “Gun” Read story
March 28, 2021, 6:02am Columns
Four years later, the meeting seems positively prescient. Read story
March 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Undocumented immigrants have been surging to the U.S. border, some wearing T-shirts with the Biden campaign logo and the words “Please let us in!” What gave them the idea that they could just show up and come on in? President Joe Biden did. Read story
March 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
With the coronavirus pandemic seeming on the wane in America, an epidemic it displaced is suddenly back, with a vengeance. Read story
March 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
When Mount St. Helens erupted four decades ago, killing 57 people and laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land, everyone assumed years would pass before life returned to the blast zone. But the first biologists to visit were shocked to find a host of survivors. Fireweed was already… Read story
