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The nation’s gaze has moved on from the near-assassination of Donald Trump to the coronation of Kamala Harris. But let’s not do that, just yet. At...
Update: I got a note from one of our long-time and most thoughtful op-ed contributors, Mike McClellan, who says to make sure if you go to O.H.S.O. on...
If you’re a conservative, it’s not Kamala Harris you fear. It’s her running mate. That is, of course, if she chooses the right running mate. ...
Hold on to your hats, people. History is in the driver seat this summer. It’s got the roof down, the music jacked up and the tires screaming. On...
As balloons fell like gold doubloons on Republican revelers in Milwaukee Thursday night the news was filtering out from Washington. The Democratic...
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The Republican Party gave Kari Lake the podium Tuesday at its national convention in Milwaukee. She used it to skewer the mainstream media. ...
Already we have seen signs that Donald Trump’s brush with death may have changed him. How could it not? Trump is now convinced that his slight turn...
Republicans will be greatly tempted to blame Saturday’s attempted murder of Donald Trump on the Democrats and left-wing media. They should resist....
There are roughly three days left to save one of the oldest homes in Gilbert. If something isn’t done, it will be demolished. A number of people...
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Fresh off The New Yorker magazine treatment of our now infamous suburban street gang – The Gilbert Goons – youth violence is back in the news...
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“The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it has in decades, perhaps ever.” — Robert M. Gates, former U.S....
We are on the brink of destroying our judicial system in Arizona. Partisan actors want to punish judges who have ruled contrary to their politics....
I wonder what the Romans were doing when their civilization started crumbling beneath their feet and the age of empire gave way to sloth and...
No one in sports will ever endure what Jackie Robinson did when he broke the color barrier in professional baseball. There are no parallels. He was...
“Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” — Teddy Roosevelt, Sept. 2, 1901 Kris Mayes commands an entire army of attorneys who — at a snap of...
We don’t understand the U.S.-Mexico border. Yes, we know illegal crossings have exceeded record highs the past two years, but that hardly begins to...
Arizona in recent years has been following the California model of electing more and more Democrats. Our state’s Democrats now command the...
There are two kinds of movies. There are “art-house” movies for sophisticated tastes and there are “popcorn” movies for the great unwashed. A...
Forgive the person who looks at Arizona politics and sees a purple state turning blue. Why wouldn’t they? Democrats have taken the governor’s...
The event is billed as a town hall. Donald Trump is scheduled to fly to Phoenix and on Thursday take questions from Arizona voters. You can bet the...
I’ve been asking the question in Arizona Republic editorial board meetings all year. Where is the Latino community? Where is the Senate Bill...
In the drone of commentary following the Trump verdict on Thursday, conventional wisdom decided it is too early to know its impact on the presidential...
I will take it on faith that when Brigham Young in 1878 sent five Mormon families to settle the high desert of eastern Arizona, he simply didn’t...
“I yield the floor,” Kyrsten Sinema told her fellow U.S. senators on Thursday. She was speaking literally, but she also seemed to be...
Tom Horne should know better. Arizona public schools, like most in this country, are creatures of the left. That’s not a conspiracy theory. That’s...
A snotty little footnote in a snotty little memo by the Arizona attorney general was all that Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell needed to clap...
As neighbors go, I’ve always thought of Gavin Newsom as basically harmless, another big-mouth, small-game California governor trying to manage a...
Brittney Griner’s new book “Coming Home” (Knopf, 2024) is a blunt depiction of the cold steel and desperation felt in a modern Russian gulag. ...
Almost the moment Brittney Griner was arrested and accused of drug smuggling in Russia in 2022, the grumbling began on the other side of the...
I’m not going to sit here and mope that Arizona’s junior senator Mark Kelly in the last couple days has moved assertively to the left. As they...
Americans both left and right have sensed for a long time that the society that created the world’s most durable constitution, its most robust...
Four years ago, the University of Arizona was still reeling from a men’s basketball scandal that had boiled up into the national news and...
The serious legal jeopardy isn’t over for 75-year-old George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher accused of murdering a Mexican migrant on his ranch...
At the height of the pandemic and the race protests of summer 2020, one of the more perceptive thinkers in American journalism, Peter Savodnik, wrote...
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has always struck me as an ill-tempered S.O.B. whose face was pre-cast in a permanent scowl. But, my Lord, was that...