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May 18, 2021 12:00 AM

‘Outrageous, Orwellian, revisionist history’: Another Big Lie

I acknowledge that I am somewhat cynical about whether a January 6 Commission can ever be created given the reflexive Republican resistance to any deep dive inv...

Apr 27, 2021 12:00 AM

Lest we forget: 100 days and counting since the insurrection

It has been just over 100 days since we watched in suspended disbelief as countless Americans marched from the Washington Ellipse to the nation’s Capitol, where...

Apr 13, 2021 11:04 AM

Search and rescue: the pandemic diaries

Over the coming weeks, as we struggle to put the pandemic in our rearview mirror, I’d like to share with you a potpourri of my thoughts and reactions to events,...

Mar 23, 2021 12:00 AM

'A vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire'

Raphael Warnock, the first African-American to represent Georgia in the United States Senate, and senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, the cradl...

Mar 16, 2021 12:00 AM

Dr. Seuss, the culture wars and the American Rescue Plan

When President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden turned to him and said, sotto voce, "This is a big (expletive) deal. " It was. And despite...

Mar 09, 2021 12:00 AM

COVID Zero expectations: the pandemic diaries

Part Two. In the haze of memory, after an exhausting year of coping with an invisible, seemingly intractable virus that contaminated the very air we breathe, we...

Mar 03, 2021 09:20 AM

COVID zero expectations: the pandemic diaries

Part One. Having joined the Peace Corps, I was sent to the University of New Mexico for training. It proved an intense summer of language instruction (Spanish),...

Feb 24, 2021 09:49 AM

At the beginning and at the end: the big lie

And so the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump ended as predicted: the Senate Republicans told the former president, as they have for the last four years, ...

Feb 23, 2021 12:00 AM

The Republican Party's post-truth cul-de-sac

Finally. It's again possible to pay attention to the manner in which an administration governs and feel a certain reassured confidence regarding its competence ...

Feb 13, 2021 12:00 AM

Letters, Feb. 13

SB 254 unfit for Oregonians. Senate Bill 254, which removes medical exemptions and puts health agencies between parents and children, is unfit for Oregonians (o...

Feb 09, 2021 09:22 AM

The company they keep: the transformed GOP

Before discussing the transformation of the Republican Party, a final point regarding negotiating the Covid Relief Package with the GOP leadership: I'd refer th...

Jan 19, 2021 12:00 AM

Trump's walkaway and all that he leaves behind

According to reports, in the early morning of Jan. 20, Donald Trump and his entourage will board Air Force One and depart Washington for Palm Beach. Pointedly, ...

Jan 12, 2021 11:14 AM

Trump's 'Big Lie': a clear and present danger

On Jan. 6, Donald Trump stood at a podium and looked out over a stretching crowd of supporters, true believers all. They had been called to the Washington Ellip...

Jan 05, 2021 12:00 AM

A president in winter: the man on a ledge

I still find it extraordinary that Donald Trump found 74 million Americans whose only wish was for four more years. And he continues to find compliant Republica...

Dec 29, 2020 08:48 AM

From 'doomscrolling' to 'blursday': Goodbye 2020

I recently came across an article by NYT reporter Tim Herrera which made the point that language is dynamic, perpetually responsive to our ever-trending pop cul...

Dec 26, 2020 12:00 AM

Herb Rothschild Jr.: My parting gift to readers

This is the last column I'll publish in the Ashland Tidings. In this season of gift giving, I've decided I no longer want to make this gift to Rosebud Media. Si...

Dec 22, 2020 12:00 AM

The metamorphosis of the disinformation peddlers

How do we have that essential dialogue so necessary to a robust democracy if the president, his political party and their base traffic in conspiracies, disinfor...

Dec 19, 2020 12:00 AM

Herb Rothschild Jr.: Real freedom means transcending choice

Consider this definition of freedom: a condition in which what we must do, should do, can do and want to do all cohere. This definition won't be found in dictio...

Dec 15, 2020 12:00 AM

At the expense of our democratic norms and ideals

Shortly before the recent presidential election, I came across a New York Times editorial urging readers, prior to casting their ballots, to reflect on the foll...

Dec 12, 2020 12:00 AM

Herb Rothschild Jr.: Narrowing the political divide begins with us

Not long after the 2016 election, David Lapp, David Blankenhorn and Bill Doherty held their first Red/Blue workshop with 10 Trump supporters and 11 Clinton supp...

You can help businesses rebuilding after fire

Letters, May 21

PREP ROUNDUP: Eagles pin loss on Black Tornado

Sheriff reveals new details in Rogue River shooting

Experience prevails in local school board races

Oregon reports five more COVID deaths

PREP ROUNDUP: Eagles pin loss on Black Tornado

PREP SOFTBALL / BASEBALL: North tops South, reaches final

North’s Stevens vaults to victory

You can help businesses rebuilding after fire

Letters, May 21

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Live music, Rogue Valley growers markets and more: May 21

Live Rogue Valley theater, livestream plays: May 21

Local livestreams, Rogue Valley virtual events: May 21

‘Outrageous, Orwellian, revisionist history’: Another Big Lie

Lest we forget: 100 days and counting since the insurrection

Search and rescue: the pandemic diaries

'A vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire'

Dr. Seuss, the culture wars and the American Rescue Plan

COVID Zero expectations: the pandemic diaries

COVID zero expectations: the pandemic diaries

At the beginning and at the end: the big lie

The Republican Party's post-truth cul-de-sac

Letters, Feb. 13

The company they keep: the transformed GOP

Trump's walkaway and all that he leaves behind

Trump's 'Big Lie': a clear and present danger

A president in winter: the man on a ledge

From 'doomscrolling' to 'blursday': Goodbye 2020

Herb Rothschild Jr.: My parting gift to readers

The metamorphosis of the disinformation peddlers

Herb Rothschild Jr.: Real freedom means transcending choice

At the expense of our democratic norms and ideals

Herb Rothschild Jr.: Narrowing the political divide begins with us

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‘Outrageous, Orwellian, revisionist history’: Another Big Lie

Lest we forget: 100 days and counting since the insurrection

Search and rescue: the pandemic diaries

'A vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire'

Dr. Seuss, the culture wars and the American Rescue Plan

COVID Zero expectations: the pandemic diaries

COVID zero expectations: the pandemic diaries

At the beginning and at the end: the big lie

The Republican Party's post-truth cul-de-sac

Letters, Feb. 13

The company they keep: the transformed GOP

Trump's walkaway and all that he leaves behind

Trump's 'Big Lie': a clear and present danger

A president in winter: the man on a ledge

From 'doomscrolling' to 'blursday': Goodbye 2020

Herb Rothschild Jr.: My parting gift to readers

The metamorphosis of the disinformation peddlers

Herb Rothschild Jr.: Real freedom means transcending choice

At the expense of our democratic norms and ideals

Herb Rothschild Jr.: Narrowing the political divide begins with us