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September 10, 2017 in 3,552 words
What’s Going to Happen When the Trumpists Realize the America They Yearn for Is Gone? The president’s hard-core backers want an America that isn’t coming back. What are we going to do? What are they...
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September 11, 2017 in 2,527 words
Sixteen Years After 9/11, How Does Terrorism End? In the run-up to the 9/11 anniversary, I reached out to experts who identified the ways terrorism evolves, fades, or dies—and under what conditions it...
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September 12, 2017 in 3,063 words
Orlando Sentinel 12-page digital extra edition: Irma’s Wrath We’ve produced a special 12-page extra edition of the Orlando Sentinel on the destruction caused by Hurricane Irma across Central Florida....
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September 15, 2017 in 2,655 words
California legislature passes bill requiring presidential candidates to release tax returns The California State Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would require all presidential candidates to...
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September 16, 2017 in 3,435 words
The New Gold Rush: Part I As Colorado River water supplies dwindle, plans for desalination litter the West As climate change, infrastructure projects and politics continue to imperil future access to...
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September 17, 2017 in 3,322 words
A fun new mindset for living in our apocalyptic reality Go Big Or Go Home You may have noticed that everything is terrible these days. Floods. Earthquakes. Nazis. Terrorist attacks. Maybe nuclear war....
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September 18, 2017 in 1,450 words
A group of children cool off at one of the many water features at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, Texas National photography project seeks to show Americans America Are we really that different? The...
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September 19, 2017 in 2,166 words
Exclusive: Facebook Silences Rohingya Reports of Ethnic Cleansing The social network says it’s committed to helping the world ‘share their stories.’ But when people from Burma’s oppressed minority...
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September 20, 2017 in 3,924 words
How High Is Rent? Most Californians Have Considered Moving The latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) Poll has put California’s housing crisis in startling perspective: A majority...
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September 21, 2017 in 3,661 words
The 5 Stupidest People On The Planet (Are All Donald Trump) How many times are you allowed to say or do something stupid before you realize you yourself are stupid? Seven times? 24? Butts? Rush...
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September 22, 2017 in 2,788 words
This Stanford Professor Has a Theory on Why 2017 Is Filled With Jerks Pharma bro Martin Shkreli. We are living in a world full of assholes. To be sure: There are no census figures to back this up, no...
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September 23, 2017 in 3,156 words
Development and disasters A deadly combination well beyond the recent hurricanes The consequences of Houston’s historic inundation, in deaths and dollars, are nowhere near fully tallied. Indeed, the...
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September 24, 2017 in 3,775 words
How to Survive the Apocalypse President Trump threatens to “totally destroy North Korea.” Another hurricane lashes out. A second monster earthquake jolts Mexico. Terrorists strike in London. And...
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September 25, 2017 in 3,555 words
Colin Kaepernick has won: he wanted a conversation and Trump started it The quarterback wanted kneeling in protest for the anthem to start a national talk about race and justice. Thanks to the...
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September 26, 2017 in 3,750 words
Remember this about Donald Trump. He knows the depths of American bigotry. Though the US president is under attack over the NFL players’ protest, he has a loyal base, and understands how to fuel their...
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September 27, 2017 in 1,749 words
Trump warned: send help or risk making Puerto Rico crisis ‘your Katrina’ • President to visit Puerto Rico next week to see Hurricane Maria damage • Trump tweets about island’s ‘massive debt’ despite...
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September 28, 2017 in 3,599 words
Like President, Like Justice Neil Gorsuch just showed his commitment to racial equality is about as strong as Trump’s. Justice Neil Gorsuch stands on the steps of the Supreme Court on June 15 in...
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September 29, 2017 in 2,903 words
We should have seen Trump coming Obama’s rise felt like a new chapter in American history. But the original sin of white supremacy was not so easily erased. I have often wondered how I missed the...
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September 30, 2017 in 4,035 words
Crash course More drivers and cyclists are colliding in Boulder County today than ever before. Why? Bill Rigler, chairman of Boulder’s Transportation Advisory Board (TAB), was Davis’s friend, and he...
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October 1, 2017 in 4,459 words
The dark side of patriotism “Vigorous support for one’s country.” That is the simple definition of “patriotism” according to the dictionary. What sticks out to me is how patriotism, by definition,...
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