Batman needed the Joker. Javert needed Jean Valjean. Patton needed Rommel. The media needs Donald Trump and vice versa. What will they do without each other? We can only speculate.

Well, you can’t say we aren’t living in interesting times. If you listen to the right wing screamers, the Democrats stole the presidential election as a run-up to installing a new world order …

Since development of the scientific method, scientists have maintained a moral obligation to warn societies about serious risks to health, safety and welfare, and to find solutions to those pr…

That Trump is evil is a foregone conclusion. It is hard to argue otherwise. He has lied, cheated and violated his way through life and the American system, often bragging of exploitations agai…

When “All in the Family” hit the TV screens in 1971, the war in Vietnam was raging, cities from Washington, D.C., to Detroit were charred from riots in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassi…

Thanksgiving is a chance for my family to come together as survivors, pretty much in defiance.

Our recent Veteran’s Day was a poignant reminder of genuine personal sacrifice courtesy our men and women warfighters of today and the millions of volunteers and conscripts from past times. Th…

The election is over – sort of.

Two front-page articles in last week’s Daily News captured the spirit of what must be done in the aftermath of a tattered election that has riven our nation beyond memory. Wednesday’s headline…

What irony! The very day (Thursday) that many Pullman residents, including parents and educators, implored the school board to reopen K-5 classes, the Whitman County Public Health Department r…

It is a rare occasion when The Donald fails to dish up a fresh outrage. In the closing weeks of his now-failed campaign — just preceding the furor created by the revelation of his deceiving th…

On election night, I sat at my computer watching the results pour in from across the country. Being a numbers guy, I created a spreadsheet where I could keep track of the number of votes for f…

Whew! I’ve never been on a roller-coaster in my life, but I think I now have a good idea of how it must feel. Needless to say, I’m delighted with the landing. As I write this, I wait to see wh…

If anyone out there still thinks voting is a waste of time, I can quash that canard with two words: Vivek Murthy.

The front page headline in the Nov. 6 Daily News may have caused alarm. The story titled “Hospital at COVID-19 capacity” was based upon comments Jeannie Eylar, chief nursing officer at Pullman…

If President Donald Trump is so smart, why didn’t he win re-election? Why is he the first one-term president in nearly 30 years?

Despite an Election Day disaster — at least six House seats lost and potentially up to a dozen when all the votes are tabulated — Speaker Nancy Pelosi will likely fend off a challenge from a b…

Pundits expected Democrats to pick up 15 seats in the House. Instead, Republicans picked up 10 seats and will maintain their Senate majority. Election analysis indicates that more than 40 perc…

When the patient woke up, the doctor exclaimed “It’s a miracle! You’ve just awakened from a coma after a terrible accident in October 2016, but you’re doing well, all things considered!”

Faced with COVID-19 and the collapse of Wyoming’s coal industry, Republican Gov. Mark Gordon said recently that the state might have to start abandoning small towns because there’s not enough …

Sure, we didn’t know who won right away, or the next day, or the day after that, but we still learned quite a bit from the election.

I learned about a moose stomping a lost soul to death on the University of Alaska, Anchorage, campus, using its hind feet to do the stomping. I have walked within 2 or 3 feet of a moose in pit…

It’s 9 a.m. Friday as I write this op-ed. And as I write, it appears that Joe Biden will be the next president of the United State. So many predictions were made, all over the map, with all th…

Veterans Day, Nov. 11, is a time for Americans to honor and thank those who have stepped forward to serve this great country. It is also appropriate to consider what veterans might hope to be …

“And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” — Mark 3:25

We should all be grateful to microbiologist Doug Call for his superb critique (His View: Oct. 21) of the Great Barrington Declaration with its call for building “herd immunity” against the cor…

I am submitting this column a day before the most consequential election since I first voted in the battle between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter (1980). At the presidential level, the differe…

Who is responsible for our dysfunctional election and government?

No, it’s not Donald Trump.

What have we become? Who are we? Where are we headed? What now? Our response must be unequivocal: We must heal. Whatever the outcomes of today’s elections, it’s time.

About a month ago I got a text from home.

From time to time, my wife accuses me of “overthinking” problems … a damned obsession with wanting to know why things happen the way they do. So it was several mornings ago when Politico repor…