Tag: Column By John Young

TweetPinShare“Fake news.” How many times? How often has Donald Trump used that throw-away slur to deflect news coverage he doesn’t like? Hundreds? Thousands? It’s an effective dodge for questions from …

TweetPinShareFor Martin Baron, April 5, 2018, is the day the euphemisms died. No more “untruths.” No more “misstatements of fact.” No more “bending the truth.” The Washington Post, of which …

TweetPinSharePhoto By NASA “Highly anticipated,” said the TV anchor. Highly anticipated? Come on, dude. For millions of Americans, the first criminal trial of Donald Trump is Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Digging deep for a pretext to ignore what the 14th Amendment prescribes for insurrectionists, one ex-president in particular, the Supreme Court acceded to wringing its hands. Giving …

TweetPinShareAP File Photo By Patrick Semansky: Former President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John’s Church across Lafayette Park from the White House on June 1, …

TweetPinShareAI-generated image of a beer can on grass. Column By John Young I should have confined my mind to what spring was doing. Everything was greening under azure skies as …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Hearing Donald Trump prosecute the Big Lie and Republicans parrot it reminds me of another masterwork in group duplicity. Back when the George W. Bush White …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Not since Rocky Marciano relocated Ezzard Charles’ chin to an adjoining county. Not since a Chuck Stobbs fastball took a 565-foot ride on Mickey Mantle’s bat. …

TweetPinShareColumn By John Young Based on any reasonable interpretation of Texas law, the highway cop who stopped Brandy Bottone on a Dallas thoroughfare asked the wrong question. Instead of, “License, …

TweetPinShareFile Photo By Chase Hunter/Cronkite News: Crowds pack Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington D.C. in November 2020 at the start of a march in support of embattled former President Donald …