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Author Wendy Howell says, "the horror and loss will deepen, will be ever-present, will settle in our bones. But so, too, will our love and care for complete strangers, and our understanding of and connection to what community really means."

Guest Post: On coronavirus from a 9/11 veteran — the best and worst to...

I was living in NYC on 9/11, and I still remember, viscerally, the terror of that day. I also remember the depth of the...
The GEO Group-run Aurora Processing Center in Aurora. (Photo by Susan Greene)

Guest Post: GEO and ICE could be building Colorado’s most dangerous COVID-19 reservoir

As of Monday afternoon, March 16, Colorado had 160 cases of COVID-19 and experienced its first related death three days earlier. The state’s testing...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: Workers from the White House Physician's Office check the body temperatures of people entering the White House with a forehead temperature scanner on March 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. The White House is now routinely checking the temperatures of people who may be in close contact with President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence as efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus continue. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Littwin: Democrats held a debate, but in the time of coronavirus, did it really...

Updated at 11:53 a.m. Monday to include Denver’s latest response to pandemic. It was an easy debate to score. Neither Democrat quite won. And Donald...
President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis, Wednesday, March, 11, 2020. (POOL PHOTO by Doug Mills/The New York Times) NYTVIRUS

Littwin: Trump’s attempt to be very nearly semi-serious about coronavirus isn’t nearly enough

According to my Twitter feed, many people who watched Donald Trump’s Oval Office speech on the coronavirus outbreak thought he looked, well, sick. I...

Littwin: The revolution isn’t over and neither is Bernie’s campaign — yet

Unless I misunderstood what Bernie Sanders was saying in his day-after-the-latest-shellacking speech, I think we can take away two things. One, the Bernie Revolution lives. Two,...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) poses for a selfie and a pinkie promise ahead of her Super Tuesday night event on March 03, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. She dropped out of the race two days later after a poor showing in which she failed to win even her own home state. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Littwin: Was it sexism that did Warren in or was it sexism and a...

After the sad demise of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president, it seems that many women took the defeat personally — even though many more...
DUBUQUE, IOWA - APRIL 30: Guests wait for the arrival of Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden for a campaign event at the Grand River Center on April 30, 2019 in Dubuque, Iowa. Biden is on his first visit to the state since announcing that he was officially seeking the Democratic nomination for president. Biden was the early favorite before everything went wrong for him. After semi-miraculous Super Tuesday, he has a chance to be favored again. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Littwin: As the world turns in the upside down Super Tuesday primary, how did...

In case you’re wondering what the hell happened Super Tuesday night, here’s the easy answer: The political world turned upside down, and now it’s...
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden addresses a crowd at a town hall event at Clinton College on August 29, 2019 in Rock Hill, S.C. (Photo credit: Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Littwin: Now it’s time to talk about Uncle Joe, and just maybe about Warren,...

Last week, before Joe Biden’s surprisingly big win in South Carolina, we had a chat about Bernie and whether it was fair to worry...

Littwin: As Super Tuesday approaches, it’s time we had a talk about Bernie

It’s time we had a chat. I’ve been out sick (not with the Coronavirus, fortunately), but it’s time we talked about Bernie. If you haven’t...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) rallied in Denver Sunday, nine days before Colorado’s Super Tuesday presidential primary on March 3. (Photo by Evan Semón Photography)

Warren’s Colorado backers say she alone can mend a tattered nation 'We’ve had three...

Madison Garver knits when anxious, and lately has been knitting a lot.  The 26-year-old from Boulder took up the craft in May, a month marked...