|
Phil BoasArizona Republic |
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...
Arizona Republicans need to get this straight. If they continue to insist on political purity and ignore political reality, they will pave the way for...
This feels like a cultural moment in Arizona. U.S. Bank has opened its first branch in Arizona that caters specifically to people in the LGBTQ ...
“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.” — American writer George Saunders Two years ago, Republicans across America rejoiced...
Donald Trump’s Republican Party likes to throw punches and never apologize. Even after three continuous cycles of defeat tied directly to...
Somehow, somewhere, I triggered an algorithm that now assaults me with ads for Ruben Gallego for United States Senate. I can’t boot up without...
I admire the guts of the Arizona Supreme Court majority that on Tuesday did its job and followed the law, even when those justices knew it would spur...
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
As tweet storms go, it wasn’t much. Just a wisp from some familiar cranks who wanted to gloat after Kari Lake tipped over her chess piece and...
It has been four years since the White House declared the coronavirus a national emergency. Not until May 2023 had it wound down enough that federal...
I stumbled across Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Exemplary Nation” video and for 9 minutes listened spellbound to that delicate voice with its hairline...
If you are a Republican, Christine Blasey Ford is a name that lives in infamy. She is the witness who then-Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein held in...
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
The American media, the people who breathlessly warned about misinformation and disinformation during the pandemic, are not to be taken seriously on...
As someone who knew Gabrielle Giffords before the Tucson shooting, I am a great admirer of hers. She was one of the bright young lights in American...
When the music finally stopped and Kyrsten Sinema laid down her baton, the Democratic base was furious. Sinema announced last week that she would...
With no less than American democracy hanging in the balance, Kamala Harris came to Phoenix on Friday to talk about the fundamental right of...
When the music finally stopped and Kyrsten Sinema laid down her baton, the Democratic base was furious. Sinema announced last week she would leave the...
In the political universe that is Washington, D.C., Kyrsten Sinema was a supernova — a solar splash of vibrant color and enormous energy. She...
On Thursday, the #LawyerForThePeople called a press conference to announce that a grand jury had indicted five suspects in a scheme to defraud...
As shakeups go, this wasn’t much of one. The three-member band that was directing financial crisis management at the University of Arizona shuffled...
The financial scandal that has wreaked devastation on the University of Arizona with spiraling budget deficits, looming mass layoffs, large program...
Wednesday’s news conference of Valley law enforcement agencies will be remembered for Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell’s swipe at...
It’s time to play “You Be The Billionaire Sports Mogul.” Now here’s your situation. You’ve just won the National League pennant and made it...
It isn’t often that mainstream media plays the handmaiden of Donald Trump. But on Tuesday there they were, putting on their red caps and leading the...
“Everybody must get stoned.” — Bob Dylan One of my favorite developments from the dawn of “medical” marijuana and those years of lying...
In Augusta the azaleas are weeping. The once dignified sport of professional golf on Saturday and Sunday turned into a weekend of drunken debauchery...
Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.
“I had a feelin' I could be someone, be someone, be someone” — Lyric from “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman Who knows why those songs of...
A mother and son rose in our state on Thursday to speak against violence and provide a clarifying moment of truth. Through their words and actions...
Let the record show that the same year an Arizona kid led his team to the Super Bowl, The Arizona Republic had to publish two stories explaining who...
God bless U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, for trying to pull off bipartisan immigration reform in an election year. As I’ve written before, there’s a...
Is there anyone as cloying as Kari Lake in devotion to Donald Trump? She doesn’t speak a word without bowing to Trump, saying his name and fetching...
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT IS FICTIONAL, BUT IT NEED NOT BE. In a well-lit tunnel in a meeting hall in North Charleston, S.C., Betsy Ankney is...
Republicans have a long association with secret audio tapes. Remember Richard Nixon and Rose Mary Woods? Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake...
When you first came to Phoenix with presidential aspirations, the year was 2015. Most Americans then believed you would be the comic diversion before...
I’m so glad you’re sticking with this race, Nikki Haley. You finished second in the New Hampshire primary and now everyone says it’s over. But...
A day after Cindy McCain went on CNN to urge a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, her daughter, Meghan, clapped back on social media. “No...
The Democrats’ and mainstream media’s choice for Republican nominee cleaned up in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. Donald Trump won, running...
The Democrats’ and mainstream media’s choice for Republican nominee cleaned up in the Iowa caucuses on Monday night. Donald Trump won running away...
Donald Trump did not win the Republican debate on Wednesday night, though it was popular for pundits to say. Donald Trump doesn’t debate on...
After eight years of Doug Ducey, the State of the State address had become the same recipe — one part accomplishment, one part aspiration and...
War in the Middle East made an appearance at the Jan. 8 opening of the Arizona Legislature. House Republicans introduced a resolution supporting...
We all expect 2024 to be a wild ride. Here’s a plot twist we didn’t anticipate. The Democratic Party that widely despises U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema...