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Here’s how reporters should cover Trump’s campaign | Quentin Young

BY: - May 5, 2023

A person cannot be both an adversary of a country and a candidate to lead it

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on Nov. 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Disorder is all Republicans have to offer | Quentin Young

BY: - January 6, 2023

Don't feel sorry for Republicans. The GOP primed its base for extremism and lawlessness. Now the base demands it.

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Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado speaks during a debate against Republican Colorado state Sen. Don Coram at the Sky Ute Resort and Casino in Ignacio on May 26, 2022. (William Woody for Colorado Newsline)

Lauren Boebert is more dangerous than ever | Quentin Young

BY: - December 20, 2022

The bigoted, election-denying U.S. representative from Colorado was awarded a second term, and now her party’s in the majority.

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Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano with his wife Rebbie at a campaign rally Thursday, 9/15/22 in suburban Philadelphia (Capital-Star photo by Peter Hall).

Their election denier is your election denier | Quentin Young

BY: - October 14, 2022

Conspiracy theorists subverting elections in several states could doom the whole republic.

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The James Webb Space Telescope produced this image, known as Webb’s First Deep Field, a view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 and the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. It was released July 11, 2022. (NASA)

The Webb telescope’s images remind us of who we really are | Quentin Young

BY: - July 22, 2022

The views of the universe are gifts of perspective.

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Trump is a domestic enemy. Treat him like one | Quentin Young

BY: - June 17, 2022

If the former president and his abettors attempted a violent coup, what’s to be done with them?

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A view of the Never Summer Mountains in Colorado. (NPS/Public domain)

Take a moment to reflect on Wynn Bruce and his death | Opinion

BY: - May 3, 2022

What is it that the world has failed to hear? Bruce insisted, in the extreme manner of a final warning, that we listen.

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The GOP is the gallows party

BY: - March 11, 2022

The longer violent rhetoric is allowed to persist the more actual violence is likely to occur.

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What I learned from watching more than 500 Jan. 6 videos | Quentin Young

BY: - February 13, 2022

If there is another Jan. 6, which could really happen, the attackers will have already had their practice run.

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Jan. 6 succeeded. Here’s what’s next | Quentin Young

BY: - January 7, 2022

Just as America has endured past division it has also seen heroic resistance to abuses.

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Stop posing with guns. It makes you look weak | Quentin Young

BY: - January 4, 2022

Glorification of firearms helps create a culture that allows routine slaughter.

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Threats of violence in our politics are at the point of emergency | Quentin Young

BY: - December 14, 2021

A unified message from Republican elected leaders could prevent a tragedy. So far they have failed to speak up.