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Of wolves and us

Rep. Andy Biggs' big, beautiful BS on the national debt is Biggs-er than ever | Opinion Rep. Andy Biggs says America's growing national debt is a threat to its national security. Funny. He voted for it.

Big, bigger....

He told the truth about Hiroshima and changed our view of war | Opinion The accounts of six people who survived the Hiroshima bombing changed how we view war and journalism. They are worth the read on its 80th anniversary.

Opinion: His account of the Hiroshima bombing changed how we view war. Eighty years later, it's still relevant.

He told the truth about Hiroshima and changed our view of war | Opinion The accounts of six people who survived the Hiroshima bombing changed how we view war and journalism. They are worth the read on its 80th anniversary.

'The crux of the matter...'

So, you thought you protected abortion rights in Arizona? Not so fast | Opinion Proposition 139 promised to enshrine abortion rights in the Arizona Constitution. But that was just a victory in battle, not winning the war.

The battle, not the war

Arizona's voucher scammers are now freely using taxpayer cash for vacation | Opinion There's no doubt that school vouchers are educational. They teach families how to scam Arizona taxpayers into paying for their vacation fun.

Grifting 101

Readers incorrectly select Grand Canyon as the most beautiful place in Arizona | Opinion The Grand Canyon is the most beautiful spot in Arizona … where we send out-of-town visitors. Other beautiful places, we keep to ourselves.

Mine

Arizona senators beg Canada not to dump us over Trump. Will Canada listen? | Opinion Arizona Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly are pressing a bill to keep Canadian snowbirds visiting our state, despite Trump's tariffs and slights.

Ignore grandpa

Where did Republican critics of 'King' Obama's executive orders disappear to? | Opinion Donald Trump has signed more executive orders in six months than Barack Obama did in his second term. But Republicans aren't calling Trump a king.

Guess who's signed way, WAY more executive orders.

Alfredo Gutierrez knew what most modern politicians forgot about being 'fierce' | Opinion Some called Alfredo Gutierrez a 'bomb-thrower,' but that's not exactly right. He was fierce, but he also knew how to work with the other side.

The life of 'Capt. Chaos'

ICE detention center ignores law and Rep. Stanton can't do a damn thing about it | Opinion Rep. Greg Stanton was illegally turned away from an Eloy immigration detention center. What about the rule of law that MAGA is always preaching about?

Where the law isn't the law

Fire within outlasts inferno for man who lived 30 years at the North Rim | Opinion To artist Bruce Aiken, who moved his family to the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, the North Rim fire is a devastating loss.

Still there

A Glendale police officer saved a drowning dog. Then the dog saved us | Opinion Glendale police officer Jose Torres didn't think twice before jumping into a canal to save a 7-month-old French poodle mix named Itachi.

What they know. What we forget.

Rep. Andy Biggs had no choice but to choose Trump over MAGA voters | Opinion Either Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs could side with voters on the Epstein files or risk losing Trump's endorsement for governor. You know what he chose.

Hobson anyone?

A 5-week paid vacation for Congress is actually a very good thing | Opinion House Speaker Mike Johnson shut down the House until September. But don't worry - congressional leaders won't sit idle on their paid vacation.

Here's what we do.

Trump's failed Anything-But-Epstein scheme features MLK and Mexican Coke | Opinion Donald Trump keeps trying to distract people from Jeffrey Epstein by releasing a trove of MLK files and demanding cane sugar in Coke, among others.

Too late, we see the man behind the curtain

Why rob a bank when Arizona lawmakers will give you money for free? | Opinion Republicans in the Arizona Legislature could rein in school voucher spending. But they'd rather waste taxpayer money. And, apparently, so do we.

No questions asked

Republican operative takes cheapest of cheap shots at Sen. Ruben Gallego | Opinion Turning Point Action's Tyler Bowyer took a cheap shot at Sen. Ruben Gallego. Is that one of the Christian values his organization claims to represent?

Cheapest of cheap shots

My otherworldly kinship with Steve Benson, a brother from another planet | Opinion Political cartoonist Steve Benson believed I was wrong about everything. But we had one thing in common that mattered more than anything else.

They don’t make them like this anymore. @ejmontini.bsky.social

My otherworldly kinship with Steve Benson, a brother from another planet | Opinion

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Arizona Democrats are working hard to help Republicans win in 2026 | Opinion Infighting and dysfunction don't just hurt Democrats. It hurts all of Arizona, particularly if it brings more Republican-led chaos to our state.

Dumpster fire

Jailed Arizona woman is another legally - but wrongly - imprisoned immigrant | Opinion We'd all want Peoria sushi shop owner Kelly Yu as our neighbor. Yet she'll be deported, as if there is no wiggle room for immigrants like her.

The law is the law. Or, is it?