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I understand why the group Progress Arizona says it will work to unseat two Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently upheld a near-total abortion...
It may be 1864 in Arizona, but just across the border in California it’s 2024. With that in mind, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is working...
I arrived in Littleton, Colo., on April 22, 1999, two days after two young men, one 18 and one 17, walked into Columbine High School and opened fire,...
I would say the Republican operatives trying to get Kari Lake elected in Arizona have lost their minds, but that implies they might, at some point,...
I didn’t need the upset stomach I was left with after reading Endia Fontanez’s article in The Arizona Republic about why there are no Michelin...
If there ever was an example of elected officials putting their personal political concerns over their constituents — and in this case putting those...
It was laughable from the start that Republican Sen. Anthony Kern would propose a bill to allow teachers to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms....
You can picture it, can’t you? An anguished, disheveled crew of Kari Lake staffers are huddled together late at night in campaign headquarters,...
I have good news and I have bad news. First, the bad news, which is … good news does not matter. A reporter learns fairly early in a career that...
If we believed that Native American religious beliefs were legitimate, there would be no court case over the destruction of Oak Flat for a copper...
I’d guess that Kari Lake and the rest of MAGA consider the late President Ronald Reagan to be less of a Republican Party icon than a RINO. But the...
I am often surprised — I know, I shouldn’t be — about how often politicians who have been elected to office by voters try to take away the...
I was in the middle of a crushing crowd outside the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles on Oct. 3, 1995, when the verdict in the O.J. Simpson...
Make no mistake, former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is the reason the state entered Mr. Peabody’s “Wayback Machine” and emerged in an...
It must be a strange and terrible thing to stand up in public, proud, unafraid, feeling very much a part of a morally committed, iron-clad collective...
Not all politicians switch their point of view when they realize their point of view will cause them to lose, just the ones who have no principles....
The Arizona Supreme Court guaranteed the passage of the Arizona Right to Abortion Initiative on Tuesday by deciding to reinstate a pre-Civil War...
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It seems at times as if Elon Musk purchased Twitter (now X) just so he could spread conspiracy theories in a completely unimpeded manner to his 180...
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During an election year — during any year, actually — the worst of our politicians propose legislation that is designed exclusively to appease...
Last month, Democratic state Rep. Jevin Hodge, who was only on the job since January, resigned from office after The Arizona Republic reported that he...
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There are days when even a reliably contentious newspaper columnist just doesn’t feel like arguing. Days when he can’t seem to derive the pleasure...
The judge hearing Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer’s defamation suit against failed Republican governor candidate Kari Lake wasn’t in the...
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As soon as Kari Lake th rew in the towel in the defamation lawsuit she’s facing from Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, she started her...
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I don’t expect politicians to make sense. But I still have questions. Particularly when we are talking about what may be the biggest of Donald...
The fake electors from Arizona in 2020 knew what they were doing. They tried to overturn the certified results of the state’s election and hand over...
It turns out that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was so far behind the times that he was ahead of them. Republicans in control of the...
Earlier this week, Republican Abe Hamadeh, hoping to succeed Rep. Debbie Lesko in Arizona Congressional District 8, was the beneficiary of a fancy...
At least this time around, none of Arizona’s House Republicans are pretending they were in favor it. Not yet, anyway. Because they weren’t in...
A lack of self-awareness doesn’t quite explain it. Obliviousness, possibly. Delusion, probably. Cluelessness, absolutely. Brainwashed? Yeah, that...
On Monday, Arizona Democratic state Sen. Eva Burch took to the Senate floor and told her colleagues something that no one should need to discuss in...
On Monday, Democratic state Sen. Eva Burch took to the Senate floor and told her colleagues something that no one should need to discuss in public....
Most of us aren’t business analysts, but I’d guess if I were to ask you if a company like, say, Google, was successful, you’d say yes. And if I...
Another one of the criminal dupes who threatened Arizona election officials was sentenced to prison this week, further proving that the Justice...
When Arizona became a state in 1912, the founders included in the state’s constitution the ability for citizens to gather signatures in order to put...
Rep. Ruben Gallego is everything citizens living in Arizona should be looking for in a member of the U.S. Senate. On paper. His story is a true-blue...
You may not want to admit it, but you know why the murder of 16-year-old Arizona high school student Preston Lord is not a national story, as is the...
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You may not want to admit it, but you know why the murder of 16-year-old Arizona high-school student Preston Lord is not a national story, as is the...
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The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature have decided that individuals who are not being discriminated against need to receive legal...
Each of us mixes up a name now and again. Forgets something. Confuses one place for another place. As a kid, my mother called me by my brother’s...
Kari Lake spouted unproven claims of misconduct and election tampering against Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer in order to grift off gullible...
Before we talk about the important stuff, let’s get our respective cliches out of the way. You’re going to say, it’s too little too, too late....
Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert has been successful as a politician in a contested congressional district by convincing just enough voters...
Each of us mixes up a name now and again. Forgets something. Confuses one place for another place. As a kid, my mother called me by my brother’s...