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Griego: ‘Undocumented. Unafraid. Unapologetic.’ Denver Dreamers speak out.

Among the couple hundred protesters who marched from North High School Tuesday to join the many hundreds of others who converged upon Auraria Campus...

Littwin: The Great Brander has now somehow latched onto America’s most...

Donald Trump has just pushed some very fine people, as he would put it, over the edge. Some very fine people now know that...

Wiretap: Trump brings in another inexperienced billionaire to help straighten things...

Donald Trump brings in a billionaire friend to review the intelligence agencies. The billionaire friend, shockingly, has no experience in national security. To say...

Littwin: Gigantic, enormous, colossal, unpresidented women’s march drives Trump mad

These are, as they say, early days. And as the nascent Trump era progresses --- if that's the right word -- we will continue...

Griego: My cousin, the Trump supporter

My cousin J Cruz comes over. He drives up from south of Denver to help me install some window shades, by which I mean...

Littwin: The Trump speech may have been dark and scary, but...

Yes, Donald Trump's inaugural speech was disturbing and dystopian and dark, served up with a large dose of populism and warmed over by a...

Wiretap: Donald Trump’s a waterbeetle, Nikki Haley is not; love (and...

Jonathan Chait makes a critical point on the presidential transition from Obama to Trump: Trump is the legacy of anti-Obamaism, not of Obama. Via...

Wiretap: Chelsea Manning wins clemency; Trump bares his fangs; DeVos gets...

Obama's last clemency push includes Chelsea Manning. It's fair to say that the move was controversial. Via The Atlantic. In some corners, it was extremely...

Littwin: Obama offers up a warning, Trump a tweet

Barack Obama's ultimately optimistic farewell speech may be remembered as the most depressing moment of his presidency. He ended the night by bringing the Chicago...

Wiretap: Wary senators and Obamacare repeal; Mitch vs. Mitch; Meryl Streep...

A handful of Senate Republicans are openly questioning the repeal-and-delay tactic on Obamacare. The question is whether there are enough of them who will...