America is getting meaner | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Tribalism, and the corrosive hatreds that go with it, has always been just below the surface in the risky experiment of our multi-ethnic democracy. Of...
The Hoover Dam made life in the West possible — or so we thought | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Think of Lake Mead as the world’s largest heart monitor. Right now it’s showing extreme distress. Within a few months, water levels are projected to...
‘Sweet symbolic justice’: Truth-teller’s statue will replace lie | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
The outgoing statue of Marcus Whitman in buckskin and a Bible is a totem to the Big Lie that he saved the Oregon Country from...
3 ways to save democracy | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
No one should graduate from high school without being equipped with the tools to recognize bogus information. It’s like elementary civics. By extension, we should...
Oh, the people I miss! | Timothy Egan / Syndicate columnist
For me, the test of normalcy will be friendship. After the flat tediousness of Zoom, I wonder if we’ll still have the muscle memory for...
Living through the darkest days and longest nights | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
As a lesson in our coming catastrophe — a season which could be “the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation”...
Barack and Michelle: Scenes from a marriage | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Long after people stop wondering how the Affordable Care Act came to be, they’ll likely be reading the Obamas as a marriage tutorial. Though he...
American democracy survives its brush with death | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Yes, it’s karmic justice that three of the states pivotal in electing Trump — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — now look like three that will...
I’ve never seen the American West in such deep distress | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Like much of the country, we Westerners are at each other’s throats, struggling to put our lives back together under a madman for a president....