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Can one GOP candidate take on Trump in 2020?

WASHINGTON – Republicans who are thinking about opposing President Trump in the 2020 primaries are facing the hardest of political choices. What are the handholds for a challenger...

DATE: Nov 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

FLC Village Aid Project helps developing countries

KeNeda Randall found healing from post-traumatic stress disorder through traveling to Myanmar with Fort Lewis College’s Village Aid Project and seeing a developing country through her ow...

DATE: Nov 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Above the Rim

Three tips for surviving the holidays

Worried your willpower will let you down this holiday season? You should be, but read on because there’s still hope. As the holidays kick off, it usually means extra time with fa...

DATE: Nov 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Dems will do all of these self-destructive things

WASHINGTON – In the spirit of the political season, I want to claim credit for the most STUPENDOUS, INSIGHTFUL and POWERFUL political strategy since Pericles bound the DELIAN LEAGUE into an ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

In Colorado, we have 12 streams named Wolf Creek, yet officially, we have no wolves in our state. A reprint of a rare book helps to explain the loss of Colorado’s wolves, and the ...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Mountainfilm on Tour bringing adventure to Durango

Durango Nature Studies to host festival this weekend

DATE: Nov 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Above the Rim

Maria’s Bookshop to host a mystery extravaganza

Three authors to speak Thursday at shop

DATE: Nov 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Above the Rim

Horseback to the cliff houses in early days of Mesa Verde

By June Head Charles B. Kelly was born in Ohio in 1857. Sometime around 1878, he came west with the John Silvey family, being a good friend of Frank Silvey’s. After getting the Si...

DATE: Oct 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Afghanistan shows security cost in hostile world

WASHINGTON – The Afghan War – really, the war against terrorists and their allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan – has elements of a Greek tragedy. It was unavoidable, but seemingly unwinnable....

DATE: Oct 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

What Khashoggi’s death says about America

NEW YORK – The apparent murder of Jamal Khashoggi tells us something important about Saudi Arabia. But it also tells us something important about America. First, Saudi Arabia. As ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

America’s foreign policy vacuum filled by cruelty

WASHINGTON – Whatever the eventual consequences of the Saudi Arabian regime’s suspected murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump’s initial response indicated much...

DATE: Oct 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

The last gasps of Patriarchy?

Years ago, I sat on the couch in my living room facing an investigator from the State Board of Medical Examiners. He had come all the way from Madison to my house in the woods in northwest W...

DATE: Oct 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way