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Update: Colorado’s public/private healthcare option clears first hurdle The battle lines...

Update, March 12: Late Wednesday night, members of the Colorado House Health and Insurance Committee passed a bill to create a new health...

Littwin: In case you’ve been distracted, Trump still insists tax bill...

I’m distracted. I admit it. You can’t help but be distracted — also appalled — when the president of the United States retweets far-right,...

Littwin: The topic that’s safe to discuss over a Turkey Day...

Since we’re well into Thanksgiving week, I’ve been searching for a column topic that is safe to discuss over dinner with your once-upon-a-time favorite...

Wiretap: Terror strikes again in London as van plows into crowd...

Terror hits London again, this time outside a North London mosque. At least one person is dead and eight injured as a van drove onto...

Noam Chomsky supports Colorado’s universal healthcare ballot measure

Famed linguist, author, and public intellectual Noam Chomsky is backing a campaign to make Colorado the first state in the nation with universal healthcare....

Bernie Sanders: Colorado could “lead the nation” with its universal healthcare...

Colorado could become the first state with universal health care if proponents of a new ballot measure get their way. It’s a move at...

Littwin: The dreadfully consistent anti-Obamacare industry

  IT has been a while, but the good times are officially back. There's another anti-Obamacare ad on a TV screen near you, this time...

Gardner fact check: He and Udall voted for same Medicare ‘cuts’

The congressman repeated a line that has become a staple of Republican stump speeches around the country, but he went beyond stretching the truth and twisted it into an ironic tangle.

Wiretap: Big man bully on the west bank of the Hudson

Ryan Lizza's great New Yorker piece is about Chris Christie, Bridgegate, the peculiarities of New Jersey politics and how the big man bullied his way to the top.

Pace says Tipton refuses to debate

Colorado Third Congressional District Challenger Sal Pace issued a press release today, calling out Republican Congressman Scott Tipton for his apparent unwillingness to debate him.