Opinions
Biden Can’t Fix Our Immigration System By Banning Asylum
Shutting down the border to asylum seekers is cruel, ineffective, and plainly illegal. We need to put human dignity — and the law — first.
DEGUIRE: The Dark Money Funding a Candidate for Colorado’s State Board of Education
The candidate, backed by Jared Polis, has been boosted by over half a million dollars of dark money.
DAVIS: Chekhov’s Gun, Christian Nationalism and the Supreme Court
If you say in the first act that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the third act it absolutely must go off,” reads one of the many versions of the narrative principle commonly known as “Chekhov’s gun”. Developed by 19th-century Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, Chekhov’s gun was the playwright’s way of insisting that every element in a story must ultimately be necessary; that there can be no insignificant details, and, therefore, that every detail carries a sense of imminence with it. Through my years of studying, analyzing, and working in politics, I have come to believe that a similar principle applies in real life: the details, often unnoticed at the time of their emergence, have a way of coming back and turning the plot like Chekhov’s gun.
Armstrong: The Colorado GOP’s Transgender Moral Panic
Those who have nothing productive to add to the political discourse often turn to hateful fearmongering and scapegoating against members of minority or unpopular groups.
Blood Clots Gave Me a Nodding Acquaintance with the Grim Reaper
So less than two weeks ago, I developed a nodding acquaintance with the Grim Reaper, thanks to a couple of pulmonary embolisms that had taken up residence in my lungs.
DAVIS: Demons, Assassinations & More as Christian Nationalist Leaders Respond to Trump Verdict
Last Thursday, Donald J. Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts levied against him by a jury of his peers in a New York courtroom, marking the first time in our 248-year history that a former President of the United States has been held accountable to the law. The exact consequences of that conviction, legally, culturally, and electorally are still unknown – our frayed social contract and crumbling institutions being what they are – but there is always righteousness in holding the mighty to the same standards as the meager.