| | | What a difference three decades make. In April 1982, I was assigned to be the Beirut correspondent for The Times.
Full Story WASHINGTON -- The story is that as Mark Twain and novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked Twain, "Do you think it will stop?
Full Story You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them. These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people.
Full Story We're in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract between citizen and state.
Full Story On Tuesday Boulder's City Council must give citizens a clue where their municipalization "off ramps" are located.
Full Story From the outside, the long-standing building at 1535 Spruce St. in Boulder has always had an oddball look, somehow clumsy and old-fashioned, but not in a good way.
Full Story The thing I remember most clearly about the economic implosion the American people awoke to on Monday, Sept.
Full Story August is upon us, beaches beckon, and Michele Bachmann has set the self-improvement bar high. She recently told The Wall Street Journal, "When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises.
Full Story "Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war." -- Julius Caesar, Act 3 Scene 1 The dogs of war are snarling.
Full Story There is only one thing worse than Republicans and Democrats failing to agree to lift the debt ceiling, and that is lifting the debt ceiling without a well-thought-out plan and with hasty cuts totaling trillions of dollars over a decade.
Full Story Some of us like to think big. We thought at the beginning of this debt crisis mess that it might be possible to reach a Grand Bargain.
Full Story The NFL is coming back. The lockout has ended. Players and owners have reached a decision on how to distribute the vast piles of money that they generate by having heavily padded men run into each other at high speeds, like a hadron collider but with more potential for spinal injury.
Full Story At the time of writing, President Barack Obama`s hoped-for "Grand Bargain" with Republicans is apparently dead.
Full Story Between 6 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Sunday, the nation began a constitutional course-correction. The current occupant`s vanity and naivete -- a dangerous amalgam -- are causing the modern presidency to buckle beneath the weight of its pretenses.
Full Story This used to be a noble profession. Still is, to tell you the truth. To hear an editor debate whether a story is fair to some deplorable individual most would consider unworthy of the effort or to watch a reporter rush toward danger to tell a story that needs telling is to be unalterably convinced of the honor in this work.
Full Story These are interesting times -- and I mean that in the worst way. Right now we`re looking at not one but two looming crises, either of which could produce a global disaster.
Full Story It always amazes me when elected officials take the fact of their election as a message that people actually agree with them.
Full Story The tea party, the most welcome political development since the Goldwater insurgency in 1964, lacks only the patience necessary when America lacks the consensus required to propel fundamental change through our constitutional system of checks and balances.
Full Story Right before a clown threw blue shaving cream on Rupert Murdoch and Murdoch's pink-clad wife threw a roundhouse at the clown, the most powerful media mogul in history was reminiscing about his father.
Full Story Over the past months, Republicans enjoyed enormous advantages. Opinion polls showed that voters are eager to reduce the federal debt, and they want to do it mostly but not entirely through spending cuts.
Full Story Ever since the current economic crisis began, it has seemed that five words sum up the central principle of U.S. financial policy: Go easy on the bankers.
Full Story President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won`t sign anything less, he warns, asking, "If not now, when?
Full Story On Tuesday Boulder`s City Council will determine what new energy future its citizens will be permitted to endorse this fall.
Full Story The rain fell, first spotty, then threatening sheets, as dark clouds grumbled overhead, marching east, throwing spears of lightning to the earth.
Full Story There aren`t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief -- of the black-humor variety -- in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.
Full Story The July 5 New York Times science section ran a fascinating article called, "Thirst for Fairness May Have Helped Us Survive.
Full Story Two things are happening this year that go hand in hand. One of these events will take place in just a couple of days, the next, in just a couple of months.
Full Story Life is not just breathing and existing as a self-enclosed skin bag. It`s doing the activities with others you were put on earth to do.
Full Story It is a truth universally acknowledged that to turn the public against public figures, it is best to portray them as dumb or boring.
Full Story The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls.
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