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Guest opinion: The Gallery of Modest Achievement

Those of us who, like me, are related to ... ahem ... England’s royal family live exciting lives. Besides being a royal, I was also a regular dancer at world-famous Carnegie Hall. This is really true. But I’ve learned that it behooves greatness to be modest. This is especially wise if your ...

Guest opinion: The decline and fall of the American empire

Overwhelming numbers of Americans want more of the pleasures we are already experiencing — more sports, more celebrities, more holidays, more movies and video games, more restaurants, more travel destinations. For some 190 years, since the campaign to lower the workday from 12 hours to 10 ...

Garavito Martinez: Words can harm; let’s also use them to help and heal

One morning before school, I asked my son a series of questions: Do you know what it means to be a bully? Do you know that sometimes bullies use harmful words to talk about a person’s culture and race? Have you heard any of these words at school? Do you know what it means to say the ...

Guest opinion: Electoral College helps Putin

Very few Americans appreciate how useful the Electoral College has been to Vladimir Putin. Over two decades ago, George W. Bush was installed as president after losing the popular vote to his opponent by more than 543,000 votes. Putin publicly used our flawed election as an excuse to take the ...

Guest opinion: Utah must mandate no-kill practices at animal shelters

If you’re famished and a politician signs a declaration that sometime this year hunger could end in your state — would you feel angry or hopeful? And if that representative’s decree was fulfilled a year after your death from starvation: Why did your life matter less than those who were ...

Guest opinion: Impeachment in context

With Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas' impeachment secured, House Republicans can now set their sights on President Joe Biden. To this end, Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee recently grilled special counsel Robert Hur regarding his investigation into Biden's handling ...

Kowalewski: Celebrating ‘herstories’

This month, I attended a memorial service for my friend and colleague, Wangarĩ wa Nyatetũ-Waigwa. She was a brilliant mind and a beautifully giving soul. The thoughtful reflections shared by her son, spouse, friends and former students deepened my understanding of her humble yet weighty ...