I’m not going to blame Associated Press for the clear typo in a recent story about Republican aversion to science. AP does incredible work. As the story reported, “Republicans’ faith in science is falling as Democrats rely on it even more.”

    Leaving out Joe’s No. 1 accomplishment             It’s odd. I just watched one of those dreary year-anniversary treatments of the Joe Biden presidency, and it left out his most important achievement.             In newsroom talk, that’s called “burying the lede.”             Staying in journalism mode, I’m going to […]

We speak here not of the ‘50s-‘60s, Commie kind. We speak but of the ‘22 Republican kind – the 12 GOP-controlled states prepared to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court gives the word.

Biden’s partner at each podium should be a ballot box – a mail-in ballot drop box, to be exact – a vessel of convenience for voters, a symbol of leaders who value them.

“We don’t have a (fire) season any longer,” University of Colorado fire scientist Jennifer Balch told the Denver Post, referring to a stretch that used to end in fall with the first snows. “We are now looking at year-round fires.”

Build Back Better. It’s a great handle for bridges, viaducts and sewer lines. But, oh, my — how inadequate a name for legislation that’s more complex and nuanced, focused on survival – personal, planetary.

In biology, surface distinctions among human beings barely count. Regardless of skin color, we all share 99.9 percent of our genetic code with one another. Biologically, race is an artifice, a distinction without a distinction.

Here is why the flag of the whiny anti-masker isn’t one with 50 stars and 13 stripes. His flag has one star, and he is it.