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 ...

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 ...

The first person to live with our family was a 7-year-old foster child. Our kids came to us one day after holding their own family council to inform their parents that our family should foster a child. My husband and I were so caught off guard we agreed. We fulfilled the required training and, ...

The other day, I caught the BEST news story. Did you know that in England there is a group called "The Tuneless Choir?" Founded by Nadine Cooper in 2016, this is a choir specifically for people who have been told that they can’t sing. The tone deaf are welcome. Everyone is welcome! There is ...

The ends don’t justify the means. The American experiment has always rested on that uncomfortable idea. A society that abandons limits, procedures and rules in pursuit of desirable outcomes may not only fail to achieve those outcomes — it may also lose the freedoms that made them possible. ...