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Durango, I’m coming to spread the CU good news

I’m looking forward to visiting southwestern Colorado next week for a number of reasons. Since taking over as the president of the University of Colorado just over a month ago, I’ve been get...

DATE: Aug 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Willa Cather penned the antidote for Trump’s age

When I was in high school, I read Willa Cather’s “My Ántonia” and loved it for the love story it told. This week, I borrowed my daughter’s copy and read it again. It turns out to ...

DATE: Aug 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

I’m rooting for Boris Johnson to salvage Britain

Boris Johnson has been Britain’s prime minister for little more than a day, and the reviews are in. He’s a disaster! A fraud! A Trumpy toff and shameless showman who won’t just be bad for th...

DATE: Jul 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Please, Nancy Pelosi: Fight Trump, not the Squad

For the last few weeks, the House Democratic leadership has been locked in an escalating battle with four left-wing freshmen congresswomen known as “the Squad”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilh...

DATE: Jul 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Immigration policies much worse than Trump’s

HAMBURG, Germany – This country has a new heroine. She is Carola Rackete, she is 31, and she is the captain of Sea Watch 3, a German NGO-operated ship that on June 12 rescued 53 d...

DATE: Jul 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bad marks

Busing and charter schools reveal fault lines for Democrats and unions

DATE: Jul 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Some conventional wisdom about college is wrong

Times have been tough for higher education, and the challenges have been numerous: the wake of the Great Recession, dwindling state funding, declining enrollments and growing public skeptici...

DATE: Jul 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Jeffrey Epstein is the symbol of plutocratic rot

In 2003, journalist Vicky Ward profiled Jeffrey Epstein, the financier indicted Monday on charges of sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls, for Vanity Fair. Her piece pa...

DATE: Jul 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Listen to nature, not labs with their fake meat

I saw a headline recently, “ What? As the co-founder of a 100% grass-fed beef restaurant, I am in the business of burgers and food. And when it comes to the ingredient deck of foods that ar...

DATE: Jul 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

George Will’s book shows why conservatism failed

NEW YORK – Today’s crisis of conservatism has produced surprisingly few books that try to understand what exactly has happened to the venerable creed. For decades, conservatism wa...

DATE: Jul 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Moderates have a different story, and it’s better

American progressives have a story to tell, and they are not afraid to tell it. In this story, global capitalism is a war zone. Free trade is a racket. Big business and Big Pharma are rapaci...

DATE: Jul 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

White House has point about excessive regulation

WASHINGTON – The most obscure part of President Trump’s economic agenda is deregulation. This is not because anyone is hiding it. The real reason is more mundane: Deregulation is ...

DATE: Jul 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns