I shouldn’t read the news before bed. Because of such an error one night, I was pondering the idiotic political theater of sending troops to “war”-torn Portland when I fell into uneased sleep.
Young column: Life-or-death crossroads for health care
Talk about all of that, and do not stop. Make noise. But at this very moment we need extreme attention – and noise – about something else. Some 24 million Americans stand to take a crippling hit if Republicans disable the thing that makes the Affordable Care Act affordable.
Young column: Speech police have boots on ground
I know your first question:
“Will the speech police be masked?” Why, of course.
Young column: Great Divider sets it on ‘boil’
Now we know about the shooter. He was a white supremacist, captivated and motivated by the right-wing “manosphere,” and of course a nation’s gun fanaticism.
Young column: Anniversary of a stupid, evil lie
It’ll be one year this week. One year ago. Sept. 10, 2024. I know you haven’t been reminded about the anniversary, and that’s not right. I’m here to remind you. If ours were an enlightened society, an exceptional society as anti-woke patriots claim, we’d remark on the anniversary with ceremonies, with discussion panels, with classroom lessons. I’ve not heard of any.
Young column: Meritocracy of dunces — and vacancies
The reader’s email had a preaching tone. The writer spoke as if I hadn’t heard the Good News, and as if the Almighty had chosen her to proclaim it. In rubbing out diversity and equity programs, she wrote, our president had taken a historic turn.
Young column: Heroic resistance amid ICE offensive
Noe Fermin Guerrero-Mendieta was arrested for being brown.
ICE storm troopers broke through his car window and arrested him for being a dangerous criminal. No, the Mexican national is here legally and was headed to his construction job.
Young column: Unchecked: a president on the take
Not one in 100 Americans can tell you what “Abscam” stands for. Make that one in a thousand. It meant a lot in 1978 – an FBI sting behind the biggest bribery scandal in congressional history: six U.S. representatives and one senator taking $50,000 payoffs from an agent impersonating an Arab oilman.
Young column: GOP can’t run from accountability
With a head of white curls and a face of demurred concern, Rosina Paolini asked for quiet. She wanted to ask, and she wanted to hear – her representative in Congress, Rep. Mike Flood, as he dodged truth like his party’s leader does in every utterance.
Young column: They would make mountains disappear
Not that I live in a chalet. But depending on the angle through the trees, towering Longs Peak is in my backyard.
Actually, it’s nearly an hour away, tucked into the back seat of Colorado’s Front Range. But 14,259 feet at its summit, across great distances only atmospheric disruptions can shroud Longs’ craggy eminence.
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