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Greg Dobbs
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Dobbs: Is Hillary Clinton healthy? Very — and so is Donald Trump
This is written in defense of Hillary Clinton. And, of Donald Trump. I can’t be any more evenhanded than that. Both of them are pictures of health. And strength. And...

Dobbs: Without its alliances, could U.S. still lead?
This crazed campaign for president has created an appetite among many for the U.S. to shake up the world. I’ve covered campaigns and seen it before but never like this....

Hampton, Pritchett among five Colorado authors chosen for Rocky Mountain Book Festival
And authors create places where ideas survive. They can take us back to the past, keep us here in the present, or propel us to the future.

Dobbs: Where should journalists draw the line on helping sources?
When you’re a journalist and on assignment overseas, you’re a subject of no nation. Your only job is to report the story through the eyes of the citizens...

Dobbs: Syrian boy is another symbol of the incalculable cost of war
The tiny corpse on a sandy sanctuary in Turkey, the dazed child in an orange chair in Syria, the kids in Gaza and the kids in Belfast, they are part...

Dobbs: A failure of justice in Boulder rape sentence
Make no mistake, rapist Austin James Wilkerson's once rosy future probably is destroyed. Forgive me for sounding callous, but I don't care. He weak sentence was not justice for his...

Dobbs: After a near-death experience, pondering “what if?”
What if? It¶¶Òõap a question we’ve all probably asked. What if I had changed my reservation and booked a ticket instead on the plane that crashed? What if I had...

Dobbs: In today’s world, painting on a whole new canvas
The recent truck attack in France hammered home the fact that in war and peace, in social upheaval and even presidential politics, we are painting today on a whole new...

Dobbs: Still making it too easy for “a crazy guy with a gun”
In the 17 years since Columbine, after so many bloodbaths, what has been done to mitigate "a crazy guy with a gun"? Almost nothing.

Dobbs: Remembering an encounter with Elie Wiesel
I met Elie Wiesel once. It was at Auschwitz. On the 40th anniversary of its liberation. He was there to remember it. To mark his people’s liberation from the Holocaust.