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Littwin: If Mueller can’t beat Trump — according to AG Barr, anyway — what...

Let’s begin by agreeing that the Barr summary of the Mueller report is devastating for Democrats, anti-Trumpists and, I’d argue, for all Americans.  That said,...
John Hickenlooper launches his presidential campaign at Denver Civic Center on March 7, 2019 (Photo by Evan Semón)

Littwin: Hick’s most memorable line in his CNN town hall was no laughing matter

John Hickenlooper is not a flake. He just tends to play one when he’s on TV. In the first big TV shot of his presidential...
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner celebrates the election of Donald Trump on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016 as his wife, Jaime, looks on. (Photo by Evan Semón)

Democrats draft playbook for defeating Gardner, their top Senate target in 2020

WASHINGTON — A recent vote by Sen. Cory Gardner helped the U.S. Senate confirm Chad Readler for a lifetime appointment as a judge on one...

Littwin: Hick’s longshot argument — Colorado comity actually beats Washington dysfunction

Now that John Hickenlooper has officially joined the presidential race, he has, let us say, just a few challenges to overcome. 1. Money. It should...

Littwin: The truth about Cohen hearing is that GOP reps already knew who the...

The most depressing part of Michael Cohen’s dramatic testimony Wednesday was not his expected revelations that the president of the United States is a con...

Littwin: Breaking new ground, Trump declares a national emergency by conceding there is no...

I know it seems early in the game, but the argument over whether there is a real national emergency on the southern border —...

Telling the stories of the more than 1,200 kids killed by gun violence since...

A year ago today, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student in Parkland, Fla., entered the school and gunned down 14 students and...

Kate Greenberg, Colorado’s new ag commissioner, on climate change and mental health in rural...

Kate Greenberg, 31, has spent most of her adult life advocating for agriculture, a calling that’s taken her from farmers’ kitchens in the rural...

Death penalty repeal: Capitol Dems say ‘full steam ahead’ on legislation this year “A...

Twenty states have banned or suspended the death penalty, and this could be the year Colorado joins them. Public support for capital punishment is...

Polis calls for re-opening Cañon City prison as back-up to reform measures Long-term aim...

This story was updated at 4 p.m. on Friday with reaction from lawmakers and edited for clarity  Gov. Jared Polis wants to re-open a mothballed...
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