By John Young T his is not about Alito, or Kavanaugh, or Gorsuch, or the Federalist Society, our now de facto judicial branch. This is about Olivia. She’s 16. A beauty. A waitress. She met a guy. Dreamy. Twenty-two. Great car. Said he loved her. Then an EPT changed his tune. He lost that loving feel...

By John Young Adam Lanza just wanted a sporting chance. He had only so much time to kill once he entered Sandy Hook Elementary. His schedule had been pinched by having just shot his mother dead. What’s a tormented individual to do? Remington Arms had the answer: the Bushmaster XM15-E2S .223 caliber ...

By John Young When he said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. was as serious about patience as he was about persistence. Patience: a hefty ask in a tormented year like 1968. But at least the word “wait” was in our vocabulary then. We don’t d...

By John Young What state will be next to fall under the Iron Curtain? We speak here not of the ‘50s-‘60s, Commie kind. We speak but of the ‘22 Republican kind – the 12 GOP-controlled states prepared to ban abortion as soon as the Supreme Court gives the word. In a land based on “freedom” – a word on...

By John Young It has the support of the G-7 powers. It has the support of more than 130 nations. Promoted by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, it would curb abuses by which corporations escape taxes overseas and help pay for America’s immense infrastructure needs. Only one thing stands in the way. We...

By John Young With grimy smokestacks belching out what smokestacks do, the Southern Colorado town of Pueblo used to be known as Steel City. Now it can be known as Solar City. The town’s signature steel plant -— once powered entirely by coal — is soon to be almost entirely solar-powered. The juice — ...

By John Young Like Afghanistan, Vietnam was a bipartisan debacle. From Kennedy to Johnson to Nixon to Ford. Wait. Ford? Gerald – yeah. The “accidental president” was the one who, like Joe Biden, made the call to end a futile and interminable war, then presided over the chaos that followed. As a pres...

America is good at commemorating things. Not Red Square-good, but we hold our own. In my house, as a virus raged beyond our walls, we’ve batted about a date to remember, to designate, to have ceremonies and plaques and markers and names on walls, and all that. It’s the date when a president deceived...

Back in September when a report emerged about a shakedown of Ukraine that got him impeached in December, I asked supporters of Donald Trump: “Did the man you helped elect sound like someone who asked the president of a foreign country to investigate the son of a political opponent? “Ah, hah, you nod...

What do my pet store and the great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt have in common? Quite a bit, actually. First, my pet store. It’s a big chain – no surprise – and therefore nothing unusual. However, its devotion to people’s safety is remarkable – so much that it offers a 10 percent discount to get g...