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You may have noted Elon Musk was in court suing Sam Altman of OpenAI. If you were praying there was a way both of these greed bros could lose, you nearly got your wish. Emails exchanged between the parties reflect well on no one. Altman originally reached out to Musk for start-up funding to launch […]

Perhaps a good place to start considering gerrymandering is to take a closer look at Elbridge Gerry, signer of the Declaration of Independence, a member of Congress, Massachusetts governor and fifth vice president of the United States. Born in 1744, he was an outspoken critic of British colonial rule in his twenties. Later, as a […]

The Trump administration’s jihad against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs has metastasized into the most unexpected corners of American life. Yet, before examining this policy “incursion,” it’s worthwhile to examine the roots of DEI which reach back more than 60 years. Following the success of civil rights legislation then, Congress created the Equal Employment […]

As Colorado approaches its 150th birthday, we should remember its first 100 years were characterized by repeated boom-and-bust economic cycles. Dependence on mineral extraction and agricultural commodity prices was subject to the volatility of these markets. In 1972, as I arrived in Denver with Ma Bell, 40,000 metro households were waiting for dial tone since […]

I arrived home on election night just in time to catch the 10 p.m. news. Flipping to Channel 9 and Kyle Clark, I found him engaged in conversation with a reporter at the Melat Kiros primary victory celebration. The pair expressed surprise at the energetic chants of “Melat!, Melat!” The on-site reporter found the enthusiasm […]

I presume in each generation of a family there’s a member who assumes the role of heredity tracker. In mine it’s been my father, also Miller, followed by my twin brother, Richard. We still possess copies of correspondence returned to my father’s teenage inquiries mailed to vicars of Anglican churches across England seeking birth, death and […]

Two surprising election results this year in Colorado and Maine’s 2026 primaries compel us to examine the role of voters. It’s usually regarded as impolite, if not insulting, to question the judgment of voters. Democratic theory often implies the collective conclusions they reach capture some ephemeral element of shared wisdom. This may be true when […]

It was early in 1974 when I first met Tim Wirth as he announced his candidacy for Congress, challenging Republican incumbent Don Brotzman. Although I had only resided in Colorado two years, I was drafted to serve as a Democratic precinct committeeman the year before. Brotzman’s congressional district was comprised primarily of Jefferson County and […]

There are several theories regarding the rhythm of American politics. The most frequently cited is the pendulum hypothesis — positing that episodes of liberal dominance are then interrupted by spans of conservative control. Since Ronald Reagan’s presidential election in 1980, these swings have been foreshortened, interrupting modest reigns of far-right rule in Washington with only […]

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a constitution as, “The set of fundamental principles according to which a state is constituted and governed, a body of rules prescribing the major elements of the structure and activities of any organization.” Somewhere in Colorado’s governing history this notion of confining a constitution to basic precepts and then leaving […]