Danish Plan

What the Russians were really up to

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So did the Russians hack the election, and if so, why, and did Trump collude with them? Here’s what I think will come out of...

Obama, Putin and pigeon chess

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It is not true — as some conservative websites have recently claimed — that Vladimir Putin once remarked that “negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the...

Why no one cares about privacy anymore — in three...

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The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook mess reminded me of a piece written eight years ago by Declan McCullagh, a journo who at the time was writing...

UFOs: Undocumented aliens or black projects?

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The best news stories are mysteries, and the queen of journo mysteries is the UFO story. It’s been around since World War II, when...

An open letter to Michaela Mujica-Steiner

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I read with interest your piece in the Dec. 13 Boulder Weekly (Re: “Déjà vu at U.N. climate talks”) about your visit to the United...

Phoenix can see its future in Mexico (it’s not what you...

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On May 12, the planet’s atmosphere hit one of those “grim milestones” we hear so much about. According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory...

Why the anti-fracking initiatives failed

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The anti-fracking petition drives did not fail for lack of institutional support from environmental organizations. According to the Denver Post, the petitioners were backed by...

The Green New Deal and the mother of all Kinsley gaffes

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A Kinsley Gaffe (named after former New Republic Editor Michael Kinsley) occurs when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he or she...

Prohibitionists want Colorado voters to recriminalize marijuana in November

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Like rust, marijuana prohibitionists never sleep. Earlier this month a couple of anti-pot activists filed a proposed initiative to amend the Colorado Constitution to repeal...

Civil disobedience in Lafayette and North Dakota

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The latest bright idea to emerge from Boulder County’s intrepid anti-frackers is to get the City of Lafayette to legalize “non-violent” civil disobedience and...

The Children’s Crusades, then and now

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It’s enough to make you believe in reincarnation. Etienne de Cloyes and Nikolaus von Koln seem to have come back as Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old...

A very big fish story

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This could be the greatest fish story since the one about loaves and fishes — and with a lot more fish involved, at that. But...