Wayne Laugesen

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Turning Colorado into California: Damage from left-wing wins is mounting

Wayne Laugesen · May 9, 2025 12:15 am

Colorado conservatives proceed with new hope

Wayne Laugesen · November 22, 2024 6:00 pm

Reparations redux

Wayne Laugesen · January 26, 2023 11:11 pm

Welcome to Denver — a ‘hellhole’ of drugs

Wayne Laugesen · August 2, 2022 12:00 am

Pot’s broken promises

Wayne Laugesen · April 22, 2022 3:00 am

Rules for radical chic

Wayne Laugesen · July 23, 2021 3:00 am

MLB commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. talks to the media before Game 2 of the baseball World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, in Houston.

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Stop letting woke victimologists harm minorities

Wayne Laugesen · April 16, 2021 3:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Unleashing chaos: Extremists commandeer a peaceful racial justice movement, threatening violence in a neighborhood near you

Wayne Laugesen · September 30, 2020 10:00 pm

Protection racket

Wayne Laugesen · August 7, 2020 3:00 am

Unions exploit virus fears to serve selfish objectives

Wayne Laugesen · July 10, 2020 7:41 pm

Beltway Confidential

We can’t save all lives at any expense

Wayne Laugesen · April 23, 2020 4:18 pm

A plastic dumpster bin melts as it is enveloped in flames. Another plastic bin sits beside it.

‘Existential’ is the ‘dumpster fire’ of 2019. Like, literally

Wayne Laugesen · December 6, 2019 5:00 am