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Ej MontiniArizona Republic |
Let’s see. I’d guess that if any one of us — someone … normal — happened to be a member of the U.S. Congress, even with our varying...
One of the most shocking aspects of some news stories is how the news story is not shocking. At all. This is one of those. The Southern Poverty Law...
Donald Trump is not returning this Thursday to Dream City Church in Phoenix in order to worship; he is returning to Dream City Church once again to BE...
We should not need to be reminded of what first responders are willing to sacrifice for us. And yet we do need to be reminded. And always in the worst...
For someone who wanted to be Arizona’s attorney general, Abe Hamadeh doesn’t seem to be much good at lawyering. He not only lost the election to...
I have attended a number of trials over the years, ranging from murder to political corruption. Each time, whether I agree with the decision jurors...
The people who shriek loudly, constantly and incorrectly that elements of the government and the justice department are being “weaponized” against...
It should mean something that the man who wants again to be president of the United States is reposting a MAGA zealot’s f-bomb filled verbal ambush...
There is probably not a job anywhere in the United States that requires less experience — zero, actually — than president of the United States....
I’d guess that Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes was a blunt, in-your-face kind of guy before he served in the United States Marine Corps....
A little more than 20 years ago — Could it be that long? — I received an email from a woman named Marcie Biskie, who told me she’d read a column...
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney got it right – and wrong – when he said last week that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump of the...
It shouldn’t be necessary, but it’s good news. California lawmakers are trying to protect the reproductive health of Arizona women in a way that...
Most of the Republicans in the Arizona Legislature were in favor of retaining Arizona’s draconian territorial abortion ban. It took two defectors in...
U.S. Senate leadership is reviving the single most important piece of border security and immigration legislation produced in decades. And the person...
Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick was one of four members of the court who decided to uphold the state’s barbaric 160-year-old abortion...
I can’t say it surprises me, and I can’t say I blame them. Roughly two-thirds of Arizona’s brand new adults are not motivated enough, or...
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney got it right — and wrong — when he said last week that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump of the...
Roughly 30 of the 7,000 students at Sunday’s Duke University graduation ceremony walked out at the beginning of the commencement address by...
We knew from the beginning that imposing a universal voucher program on Arizona taxpayers was a Robin-Hood-in-reverse scam, robbing money from the...
The best (or at least most humorous) part of Donald Trump’s hush money trial this week was Trump and his lawyers and his loyal propagandists at...
Matt Capalby grew up in Kingman among hard-working, stoic, patriot people who, he told me, “are not the type who complain, or who would camp out on...
It might be a good idea for Arizona’s three state universities to offer a course in the history of protests in the United States. Not just for...
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is overjoyed that the Legislature repealed what she called “this insane 1864 abortion ban,” but she is not...
For the past couple of months Kari Lake has been trying to doggie-paddle across the dark waters next to all the bridges she burned. It’s a rough...
You’ve been conned. At least if you fell for the news reports claiming that Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban has been repealed. If that is something...
The folks in Fountain Hills who are horrified at the possibility of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio being elected mayor in November may have...
Last year, when Rudy Giuliani and others (including former President Donald Trump) were indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges tied to attempts...
The first message I got about the dog-killing Republican governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, was: “Until I heard what Noem did I thought there...
After 69 protesters were arrested early Saturday at a pro-Palestinian encampment at Arizona State University, the administration released a statement...
Companies make phones now that come with parental controls that restrict access to social media, prevent the ability to text, block spam and only...
People who live on top of fault lines can go for years, decades, lifetimes without feeling the slightest tremor. Then, the seemingly dormant tectonic...
Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, is once again demonstrating her celebrity power and appeal to GOP voters. Unfortunately...
Don’t let anybody tell you that university eggheads are smarter than jocks. Not in Arizona, anyway. Several years back, investigators from the NCAA...
Kari Lake is once again fully behind Arizona’s ghoulish 1864 near-total abortion ban. For now. As you’ll remember, before the Arizona Supreme...
I understand why the group Progress Arizona says it will work to unseat two Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently upheld a near-total abortion...
It may be 1864 in Arizona, but just across the border in California it’s 2024. With that in mind, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is working...
I arrived in Littleton, Colo., on April 22, 1999, two days after two young men, one 18 and one 17, walked into Columbine High School and opened fire,...
I would say the Republican operatives trying to get Kari Lake elected in Arizona have lost their minds, but that implies they might, at some point,...
I didn’t need the upset stomach I was left with after reading Endia Fontanez’s article in The Arizona Republic about why there are no Michelin...
If there ever was an example of elected officials putting their personal political concerns over their constituents — and in this case putting those...