Plunkett: Banning kids from smartphones is a truly dangerous idea
Banning children from smartphones would stifle innovation and hurt those children in families who donāt have parents good enough to worry about them.
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Plunkett: In the future, we’ll all need publicists
At the rate of growth of social media platforms and their reach, soon weāll rely on assistants to manage our social media affairs. It will mark the beginning of the...
Plunkett: Beware Trump Derangement Syndrome
The Grand Old Party lately has spoken of a mind-altering condition that affects critics of Our Tremendous President: Trump Derangement Syndrome. The idea, of course, is that those afflicted with...
Plunkett: For Dick Lamm, an end-of-life question of another sort
Former Colorado Gov. Dick Lamm is facing a crisis. Heās about to retire, but he doesnāt really want to.
Plunkett: What President Trumpās treatment of Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells us
What President Donald Trump just did to Sarah Huckabee Sanders is what he is doing to those salt of the earth folks who supported him.
Plunkett: Advice to young writers: On story-telling, truth-telling and Hell on Earth
Why is it that we want to write? What gives us the right to even try? What message are we sending to the world by working as writers that we...
Plunkett: What to do when the price of cannabis drops like a bowling ball?
Decades of black-market sales taught us that cannabis sold for thousands of dollars per pound. As markets upend the price, how will lawmakers make up for lost revenue?
Plunkett: Ken Salazar’s advice
Ken Salazarās message to Democrats is that what could have been remains the party's strength in trying to climb back into power. And don't count him out in the future.
Plunkett: The greatest performance artist of all time
President Trump's recent setbacks have exposed a potentially crippling weakness: He doesn't look that unstoppable anymore.
Plunkett: In so many ways, users of social media improve our journalism
For all its messiness and disappointment, social media has and continues to improve what it is we do as journalists. Here are a few examples.