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 ...

During his State of the Union, President Donald Trump declared himself wonderful. My new video takes a closer look, scoring his fifth year as president. He deserves an "A" for his willingness to take questions. It's a relief after President Joe Biden, who hid from reporters. But ...

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, ...

It seems like everyone in Chicago has a story about the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died this week at the age of 84. Here's mine. I was a young reporter when I first talked to him, working the weekend and holiday shifts, which meant I often covered some of the bleakest stories in the newspaper. ...