What’s that you hear? The sounds of hammering and pounding, sanding and carving. It’s the Republican Party, hard at work constructing myths and phantoms.
Young column: GOP cheers on race to bottom
This is a manifestation of what some economists call the “wealth defense industry —  aimed at hiding monstrous gains from the tax system or otherwise masking the fruits of criminal enterprises.
Young column: When did recklessness become an ideology?
Sure, some Americans, regardless of political slant, were firmly anti-vax before this. But what explains today’s red-state, anti-vax, anti-mask phenomenon? The letter-writer nails it
Young column: Road to Kabul via Saigon
Is Vietnam relevant as we consider where we’ve been and what sent our troops home on a one-airstrip airport in Kabul?
Young column: Call it the ‘Green Real Deal’
The Green New Deal is a distraction. The Green Real Deal is where we need to be, today, tomorrow and for however long this planet will have us. Â
Young column: Fox News: Dialing up lies for dollars
In a New York courtroom, freedom of the press is being juxtaposed with the freedom to lie. Freedom to lie to subvert an election. Freedom to lie to aid the chief patron of a gold-digging cable network. Donald Trump’s Big Lie — and his covey of mouthpieces […]
Young column: We’ve stomped summer flat
This was the hottest summer on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with attendant dimensions to match.
Young column: Requiem for an anti-vax evangelist
What kind of science did Bob Enyart peddle? Whatever the strain, it killed him. It wasn’t cross-over equine science – the wonders of horse dewormer. It wasn’t Clorox tonic or one dose too many hydroxychloroquine. It was just anti-vax, anti-fact quackery.
Minority rule wrecks us
Only in the Supreme Court does the majority consistently make policy in Washington. And most of that majority was nominated by presidents who got fewer votes than their rivals.
Young column: Stinkin’ rotten stupid COVID politics
Why not require vaccination for the virus now overwhelming Texas hospitals and cutting a swath of tragedy through the South? Stinking, rotten, stupid politics.
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