Tag: Column By John Young

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 …

TweetPinShareFormer President Donald J. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2018. Column By John Young With the death of Alexei Navalny, we are reminded once again how Vladimir Putin …