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Phil BoasArizona Republic |
Next month will mark three years since Russian despot Vladimir Putin took Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner hostage and a week later launched...
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In the early morning of Dec. 4 in midtown Manhattan, a man with a 9 mm handgun and silencer shot Brian Thompson repeatedly in the back. Thompson,...
As if the original call wasn’t weird enough: Things were about to get even weirder. Roughly two hours after all that, some guy shows up at Sky...
On Sunday, Karrin Taylor Robson grabbed the brass ring, one of the biggest prizes in modern Republican politics — the Donald Trump endorsement....
As we try to comprehend the frenzy over drones on the East Coast, understand this. These are friendly aircraft. Because there is no way, NO WAY,...
Are we really going to go there? Because if that’s where we are as a country, then the most important story on the shooting death of...
The best argument for Arizona to create an election system that is fast and accurate is this: It can be done. Other states are proving every cycle...
On Sunday, Joe Biden broke his word and granted his son one of the most generous pardons ever issued by an American president. Hunter Biden will...
As its name implies, the motion picture “Die Hard” isn’t going to go away any time soon. You’ve probably seen the film, but to understand...
If you were a Mormon kid growing up in Phoenix in the early 1970s, this was the game you dreaded. Brigham Young vs. Arizona State. One of your two...
The Ruben Gallego makeover is complete. Only a few years ago, he was a bomb-throwing, back-bench liberal who called a conservative lawmaker an...
Denial is a river you can watch in real time. At the moment it flows from social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, to social platform BlueSky,...
That’s some heat Mark Kelly just threw at Donald Trump’s new pick for U.S. Defense secretary. The U.S. senator from Arizona and former astronaut...
Never will you see retreat wrapped in so much tough talk and chest thumping as Kris Mayes displayed at her Tuesday press scrum. The Arizona...
“Hitler” is not a metaphor. He moves among us as Donald Trump, imploring us to grant him dominion over the U.S. government and its armed forces. ...
It had reached the point where no one could break through. The presidential election had turned into a blur of cannon fire with each side shooting...
For about the first five minutes of Wednesday’s U.S. Senate debate in Phoenix, you saw what Kari Lake could have been. Well pressed and pinpoint...
The most important moment in Tuesday’s vice-presidential debate was not spoken. You can’t put quote marks around it, because it was said visually,...
This column has been updated to correct a typo. Mesa Mayor John Giles is a man of high character, so I respect his decision to vote against his...
If you’re a parent of teens and young adults, there may be another topic you’ll want to add to those essential conversations you have with your...
What a weird time to be an American. The Republicans are coopting the Kennedys and the Democrats are coopting the McCains. At the Democrats’...
On Thursday night, Republican Meghan McCain celebrated the Democratic National Convention in a way that hinted she may be changing sides. For...
Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth movement Turning Point USA, isn’t stupid. He knows he’s got a Candace Owens problem. He has to...
As Barack Obama dazzled Democrats at their Chicago convention on Tuesday night, he reminded them to keep their feet firmly on the ground. We live...
With so many eyes on this week’s Democratic National Convention, a lot of Americans didn’t notice on Friday that the 2024 presidential election...
I was wrong about Doug Ducey. I had always seen him as the ice cream executive who we went from selling vanilla in waffle cones to selling vanilla...
James Knox is getting an education in self-publishing. As a member of the board of the Queen Creek Unified School District, Knox has been sharing...
Friday night at Glendale’s Desert Diamond Arena, Democrats who came to see Kamala Harris and her running mate Tim Walz soon became their...
He is not the most dazzling star in the firmament. He glows warm. He doesn’t blaze like the supernova, LeBron James. But he is our star and our...
When the veepstakes were still going strong in Kamala-land and Mark Kelly was in serious contention, there came a cable-news feed that showed a...
I was prepared to tell Democrats what a brilliant choice they made for vice president. Where Donald Trump had blundered, choosing a lock-step...
You probably don’t think much about the first game-changing event in the 2024 presidential election — it happened so long ago. May 30. That was...