Columns

Politicians’ deceitful promise

Published on Fri, 10/26/2018 - 12:00am

Will you be able to retire? Maybe not. Will your state pay what its politicians promised? Almost certainly not. Politicians in Connecticut, New Jersey and Illinois are especially irresponsible when

2018 midterms: He vs. she

Published on Thu, 10/25/2018 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — Slowly but inevitably, the two major political parties have become the party of women and the party of men — guess which is which — so that the

What Gerald Ford could teach Beto in ’18

Published on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 12:00am

When people learn that I have spent the past 50 years either working in or covering the past 13 presidential campaigns, I’m often asked my opinion of what was the

23andMeToo

Published on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — Now that the DNA is out of the bag, Sen. Elizabeth Warren can put her Native American heritage down for a nap — maybe. After two and a

The tragedy of grizzly bear management

Published on Wed, 10/17/2018 - 12:00am

A tragic fourth straight year of record-breaking grizzly bear mortality in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has been compounded by the concurrent tragedy of increasingly frequent human maulings and deaths. Most

Missing writer shows Saudi Arabia’s dark side

Published on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 12:00am

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As every country across the Mideast does with its leaders, it’s hard to escape posters and laudatory fawning over Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Our epidemic of loneliness

Published on Fri, 10/12/2018 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — If Sen. Ben Sasse is right — he has not recently been wrong about anything important — the nation’s most-discussed political problem is entangled with the least-understood public

Democrats should resist the urge to fight fire with fire

Published on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:00am

WASHINGTON — One measure of the effectiveness of a political movement is how it changes its opposition. And Donald Trump is in the process of driving portions of his Democratic

Even birth control is under attack

Published on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:00am

There was a time when Republicans and Democrats generally agreed that access to birth control was a public good. Most saw preventing unwanted pregnancies as key to making abortions rare.

Bravo, Mr. Secretary

Published on Wed, 10/10/2018 - 12:00am

On Monday, Secretary Zinke flew to Montana to announce a 20 year mineral withdrawal of new mining claims on 30,000 acres in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, before a group