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 ...

Individually, a package of recent legislative proposals has been presented as targeted reforms to Utah’s judicial system. Taken together, however, they represent significant structural changes to how judges are appointed, evaluated, and retained. These proposals deserve the attention of every ...

Is time an inflexible metronome, mechanically ticking down a one-way street, where past, present, and future are safely kept apart? Our highly structured society, with its schedules and deadlines, tends to reinforce this view. Yet from a scientific perspective, Einstein theorized, and later ...