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Colorado senators Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet once seemed apt facets of purple politics. Bennet, 54, is a moderate Democrat, a distinction that matters in his party when Sen. Bernie Sanders,...
DATE: May 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The biggest story of last year, measured by cable news coverage, was Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation. There was something in it to horrify everyone and everyone was left dissatisfied,...
DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Late in Patrick Radden Keefe’s riveting new account of the Irish Republican Army, he quotes anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who observed, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of...
DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Every now and then, you send your representatives off to the state capitol and though they do not write when they find work, they manage to stay out of trouble long enough to do something good. It...
DATE: May 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
About 40 protesters gathered in front of the Durango headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week. All protest is good for the body politic. We have a First Amendment tailored...
DATE: April 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Watching a nature documentary these days, despite great technical strides in film-making and perhaps because of them, it is hard not to feel we are saying goodbye to everything – every species,...
DATE: April 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We have had roughly the same two parties in the U.S. competing and, over the long haul, checking one another, for more than 160 years. For the second half of that span, each has believed at various...
DATE: April 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We were joking the other day that we ought to keep calling Pete Buttigieg “Mayor Pete” even after he wins the presidency in 2020. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana has attracted attention for his...
DATE: April 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There was a Depression-era sign we saw once, in a photograph of a gas station. It said, “Free air – It’s your country, don’t let the big boys take it away from you.” We admired the simplicity,...
DATE: April 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and their baby girl Scottie moved to Great Neck, a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, New York. It was farm country then, becoming railroad...
DATE: April 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Who said children who cross the U.S. border from the south should be deported as quickly as possible? Who said, “We have to send a clear message that just because your child gets across the border,...
DATE: April 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the great things about the study of animal intelligence is that it is an unending pageant of discovery. Every attribute we thought was uniquely human, from language to tools and thinking to...
DATE: April 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials
