Froma Harrop

Harrop: When only a human will do

March 9, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

We know that human employees are expensive, but so is losing customers. Humans are often the last hope for solving problems -- or simply telling us it's hopeless.

Stormy Daniels arrives for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 11, 2007.

Harrop: Stormy Daniels understands the art of the deal

March 6, 2018 at 2:33 p.m.

Porn star Stormy Daniels does not come from any mainstream school of feminism. When a powerful man presses her to have sex, she does not charge harassment. She charges money.

A wind farm operates outside Glenrock, Wyo.

Harrop: Renewable energy is competitive, so why does windy Wyoming tax its turbines?

February 6, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Promoters of fossil fuels have long argued that wind and solar power are just too expensive and unreliable to serve as major sources of energy. Because that is no longer...

Oxycodone pain pills prescribed for a patient with chronic pain lie on display on March 23, 2016 in Norwich, CT.

Harrop: Big Pharma may own Washington, but it doesn’t own Amazon

February 1, 2018 at 5:29 p.m.

A separation between the public's wallet and Big Pharma's desire to extract huge profits is surely one wall Trump will never build.

President Donald Trump speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last Friday.

Harrop: What Americans sacrificed for modest economic gain

January 30, 2018 at 9:34 a.m.

"America is roaring back," Donald Trump pitched to the global elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland. Those back home should be asking: How loud, really, is that roar?

In 2013, House Speaker John Boehner refused to put comprehensive immigration reform up for a vote after the Senate passed bipartisan legislation.

Harrop: Republicans don’t really want to fix immigration

January 19, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

Illegal immigration is a problem that bothers most Americans. If politicians actually fix it, then all the GOP has left are tax cuts for the rich, environmental degradation, soaring deficits...

President Donald Trump presides over a meeting about immigration with Republican and Democratic members of Congress on Jan. 9 at the White House.

Harrop: For once, Trump talks sense on immigration

January 11, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 9, Donald J. Trump made sense on immigration reform -- with just a few contradictions.

People stand in line for MedMen, one of the two Los Angeles area pot shops that began selling marijuana for recreational use under the new California marijuana law on Tuesday in West Hollywood.

Harrop: How not to celebrate marijuana legalization

January 8, 2018 at 9:39 a.m.

As many Californians reveled with unbridled joy over their new freedom to use marijuana for any reason, this writer felt the bit of mild disapproval tighten in her mouth.

A boy reaches for a book on the top shelf in the Children's section of the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax Avenue in Denver on June 11, 2016. The number of independent bookstores nationally has jumped by over 30 percent since 2009, according to the American Booksellers Association.

Harrop: From dying malls, downtown retailing grows

December 22, 2017 at 12:00 p.m.

Online commerce is knocking off the malls that once killed the mom-and-pop shops. But downtown retail is making a comeback.

Train passengers look on as a man and his band perform in a New York City subway station on June 19, 2007. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs New York's subway system, announced last month that conductors will no longer use the phrase 鈥渓adies and gentlemen鈥� in announcements. Instead they will use gender-neutral language in an effort meant to be more inclusive.

Harrop: God rest ye merry, subway riders

December 19, 2017 at 6:48 a.m.

The notion that dropping "ladies and gentlemen" from New York subway announcements is an outgrowth of political correctness is not off base.

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