April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
With the death of singer-songwriter Eric Carmen last month and Earth Day today, I got to thinking about Carmen’s song “All By Myself” and how deeper forms of activism are both essential to making change and a powerful antidote to our growing epidemic of loneliness. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. And yet White worked… Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:02am Columns
When it comes to basketball, maybe Caitlin Clark can do everything. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of U.S. government borrowing is unsustainable. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
I see that the right-most flank of the national Republican Party is baying to take out another GOP speaker of the house, for the sin of being too into compromise. I also see that the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is agitating to take out Washington’s last Republican in… Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Paying “hush money” to keep an extramarital affair quiet is not a crime. And falsifying business records to cover it up is not a felony. What makes it one — or 34, the number of felony counts Donald Trump has been charged with — is an “intent to defraud” that… Read story
April 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There was a time when many of President Donald Trump’s top officials — including his Cabinet-level advisers on national and global security — thought the toughest decision they had to make was whether to tell you the truth about what they really thought about their boss. Read story
April 18, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Every state is different. Nebraska is quite different. It is one of only two states that doesn’t use the winner-take-all system in presidential elections. Along with Maine, it allocates its Electoral College votes to reflect the results in each of its congressional districts. Read story
April 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There is a time, as Ecclesiastes and the Byrds tell us, for everything under the sun. A time to kill or heal; to build up or tear down; to be born or die; to weep or laugh; to mourn or dance; to love or hate; for war or peace. Read story
April 16, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Perhaps you can imagine punishments more to be feared than a lengthy prison sentence, but in a country that proscribes cruel and unusual punishment — except the death penalty — the only thing I can think of that would be worse than confinement in prison is confinement as the result… Read story
