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Parker: The dissonance of an embassy celebration, Gaza carnage

WASHINGTON – The past few days have provided a head-swiveling study in cognitive dissonance and dueling realities. Monday started the week with a jolt in Jerusalem, where the U.S....

DATE: May 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Neighbor has tanning dilemma

DEAR ABBY: I have really nice neighbors, and we are always pleasant to each other. We put up a large above-ground pool in our backyard, and they put up a trampoline. I would ...

DATE: May 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Diaz: Get outdoors to celebrate Colorado Public Lands Day

Summer is when our public lands and waters shine. Exciting adventures loom on the horizon, with endless opportunities to kayak, raft, fish, hike, bike and camp across Colorado’s 24 million a...

DATE: May 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Robinson: Categorizing ‘real Americans’ is offensive

WASHINGTON — The most offensive and corrosive idea in our politics today is that some Americans are more “real” than others. Don’t you dare buy it. Republicans are cynically peddl...

DATE: May 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mom too tired to help kids

DEAR ABBY: I am a working mother of three who may be battling postpartum depression. I feel like I am parenting alone. I get the kids out of the house by myself in the morning before my ...

DATE: May 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Brooks: Trump’s lizard wisdom plays out in thug world

We’re all educated by our peers and, over the years, a good portion of Donald Trump’s peers have been bullies and thugs. Operating in the New York construction world meant dealin...

DATE: May 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Woman wants to replace lost recipes

DEAR ABBY: Due to some unfortunate family circumstances, I was devastated to discover that nearly all of my boxes of cherished recipes had been destroyed. I’m now starting over from scra...

DATE: May 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

What became of the virtue of civility?

Civil discourse these days is less and less civil. This is not news. For those of us who are “of an age,” we have something with which to compare how our society is currently functioning. We...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Huser: Hiding details of child suicide solves nothing

The bill passed recently by Colorado legislators to exempt the autopsy reports of minor children from the Colorado Open Records Act is a product of good intentions, but it’s a bad idea that ...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Kristof: Trump vandalizes the Iran deal

President Donald Trump’s attempt to blow up the Iranian nuclear deal isn’t foreign policy. It’s vandalism. Trump is abandoning the Iran deal, with nothing to replace it, even thou...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Bruni: Renounce Pelosi, ignore Trump ... and win?

WAXHAW, N.C. — Does Conor Lamb strike twice? Dan McCready certainly hopes so. Like Lamb, who won a special House election in Pennsylvania two months ago, McCready is a Democratic congression...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Are you on the path to diabetes?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 84 million Americans now have prediabetes. What’s scarier is that nine out of 10 don’t even know they have it. Are you ...

DATE: May 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

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