Every now and then my husband, Dave, channels his inner romantic hero and I melt into a puddle of goo. In this case a rather large chocolate flavored puddle. You see, every year on February 1 a mysterious Chocolate Bandit comes in the middle of the night and leaves chocolate treats for me and ...

The fact that a democratic socialist mayor presides over the nation's largest and most influential city has sparked panic in some quarters. Yet almost every economy mixes elements of privatization (or capitalism) and collectivization (or socialism). A purely privatized economy with almost no ...

Of late, there has been a national conversation about civics. When the United States took a deep dive into STEM fields, prioritizing them above everything else in education back in the 1950s, civics took a back, middle seat. All of the problems we have today, from affective polarization to ...

As a mom of grade school kids, I'm constantly nagging — "Brush your teeth! Get your shoes on, it's time to go! It's almost bedtime, finish your homework!" My kids may hear what I say, but chances are, they do not really listen or care the first time, or even the first 10 times. Often, it's ...

In the 1992 American legal drama, A Few Good Men, Col. Nathan Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson, is sitting on the stand in an intense moment of courtroom cross-examination by Lt. Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, regarding the death of a Marine. The judge on the stand has just instructed ...

Around the country, colleges and universities have been making game plans for how to respond to the artificial intelligence boom. In Utah, these strategies were outlined by the Utah Board of Higher Education in the “Resolution on Strategic Direction for an AI-Driven Future,” released late ...