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Littwin Columns

President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis, Wednesday, March, 11, 2020. (POOL PHOTO by Doug Mills/The New York Times) NYTVIRUS

Littwin: The virus news has gotten so bad that Trump is forced to try...

I heard something strange and remarkable and frightening at the White House coronavirus press briefing Tuesday. I’m pretty sure it was something very much...
Gov. Jared Polis announced Colorado's first two cases of coronavirus in Colorado on March 5, 2020. As of Friday, March 27, tyhe state was up to more than 1,700 cases with 31 deaths. (Photo by John Herrick)

Littwin: Trump is back to war and Polis is telling us the best defense...

In case you were wondering, the wartime president is back. It took Donald Trump only a few days to realize that wishing away the...
President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis, Wednesday, March, 11, 2020. (POOL PHOTO by Doug Mills/The New York Times) NYTVIRUS

Littwin: If Trump’s war against the pandemic is ending soon, who will tell the...

For those keeping score at home, we are now officially ending the war-time presidency phase of the battle against the novel coronavirus pandemic and...
Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck at a candidate forum in Denver on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. (Photo by Rachel Lorenz for The Colorado Independent)

Littwin: Ken Buck bravely goes where all informed people fear to tread

One of the first things they teach you in column-writing school — OK, there aren’t really any column-writing schools, but, as the saying goes,...
Self-isolating Grandpa walks in on the action with grandsons Lalo and Ricky. I don’t know where the hats came from, but I wished I had one, too. (Photo by Angie Littwin)

Littwin: A self-isolator’s guide on life during the coronavirus pandemic

Reporting from an undisclosed self-isolation location: OK, it’s not funny. I am mostly self-isolated, though, which is a lot like being quarantined, which is a...
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 16: Workers from the White House Physician's Office check the body temperatures of people entering the White House with a forehead temperature scanner on March 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. The White House is now routinely checking the temperatures of people who may be in close contact with President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence as efforts to contain the COVID-19 virus continue. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Littwin: Democrats held a debate, but in the time of coronavirus, did it really...

Updated at 11:53 a.m. Monday to include Denver’s latest response to pandemic. It was an easy debate to score. Neither Democrat quite won. And Donald...
President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis, Wednesday, March, 11, 2020. (POOL PHOTO by Doug Mills/The New York Times) NYTVIRUS

Littwin: Trump’s attempt to be very nearly semi-serious about coronavirus isn’t nearly enough

According to my Twitter feed, many people who watched Donald Trump’s Oval Office speech on the coronavirus outbreak thought he looked, well, sick. I...
Bernie Sanders greets a crowd of thousands rallying Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020 at the Colorado Convention Center. Sanders won the Colorado presidential caucuses in 2016. This year, the state joins the Super Tuesday primaries on March 3. (Photo by Evan Semón)

Littwin: The revolution isn’t over and neither is Bernie’s campaign — yet

Unless I misunderstood what Bernie Sanders was saying in his day-after-the-latest-shellacking speech, I think we can take away two things. One, the Bernie Revolution lives. Two,...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) poses for a selfie and a pinkie promise ahead of her Super Tuesday night event on March 03, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. She dropped out of the race two days later after a poor showing in which she failed to win even her own home state. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Littwin: Was it sexism that did Warren in or was it sexism and a...

After the sad demise of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for president, it seems that many women took the defeat personally — even though many more...
DUBUQUE, IOWA - APRIL 30: Guests wait for the arrival of Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden for a campaign event at the Grand River Center on April 30, 2019 in Dubuque, Iowa. Biden is on his first visit to the state since announcing that he was officially seeking the Democratic nomination for president. Biden was the early favorite before everything went wrong for him. After semi-miraculous Super Tuesday, he has a chance to be favored again. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Littwin: As the world turns in the upside down Super Tuesday primary, how did...

In case you’re wondering what the hell happened Super Tuesday night, here’s the easy answer: The political world turned upside down, and now it’s...
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