Opinion & Commentary

Best of Phoenix 2017 covers almost everything about life in the Valley. Almost.

Not many will remember what it was like to register for the draft, but the same divisive feelings are omnipresent today

The Colin Kaepernick issue isn’t going away as the 2017 season begins. Would you really boycott your team because one of its stars took a knee during the national anthem?

You told us we needed to make our stories easier to read online. We listened. Tell us what you think now.

Twitter thread of two decades of coverage of the former sheriff goes viral, reaching hundreds of thousands

Yes, there was violence from both sides in Charlottesville; but that didn’t mean those opposing racism were wrong.

Proof that I actually saw what I said I saw.

I could have investigated any number of important topics this past weekend for today’s column. Instead, I opted to spend Saturday night researching the quintessential downtown Phoenix experience

In 1973, columnist Art Buchwald provided Nixon supporters a handy list of responses to questions from nasty liberals. It seems appropriate to borrow some of it here. (I am not a crook.)

It’s what I asked him to do in a “Dear John Letter.” I didn’t expect him to take me so literally.

How does standing in line at the DMV to change the address on your driver’s license compare to the Trail of Tears and slavery?

Of course not, at least in a biological sense. But what else is there new to talk about as Sheriff Joe finally goes on trial today?

Okay, we can all agree that Obamacare wasn’t perfect, but what’s the rush? Get it right this time.

By the time I arrived here in 2013, Psycho’s Janet Leigh was dead and so, it seeemed, was downtown Phoenix.

Whether at a restaurant or bar, the worth of the meal is so much more than the quality of the food and drink

Stephen Lemons, columnist for the Phoenix New Times, bids farewell to friends and enemies.

Critics of the listings’ behemoth Backpage.com pull out the long knives for its erstwhile owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin.

Phoenix anarchist Beth Payne says the left-wing John Brown Gun Club will not fire the first shot against right-wing militias.

A member of the Arizona Liberty Guard has Nazi symbolism on his Facebook page, though he insists that he is not a neo-Nazi.

Department of Child Safety Director Greg McKay is true to his cop roots with a memo okaying secret recordings and lie-detection software.