Opinion
Guest opinion: Citizen initiatives are a needed check on legislative power
GARVEY: Breakfast on the Hindenburg
ERICKSON: Tragedy and reality
COMER: Zohran Mamdani has Marxist beliefs, and Nate Blouin is an admirer
Guest opinion: The persecution of Mark Kelly and the pattern behind it
Guest opinion: Can the U.S. solve its electricity crisis?
NAPOLITANO: A lawless presidency
ROBBINS: Going to extremes: As our domestic cancer spreads, America flails
WSU guest opinion: Most Utahns didn’t track the redistricting fight. That’s exactly why we elect representatives.
WSU guest opinion: An ode to teaching
I don’t know what it is, and perhaps there’s a diagnosis hidden somewhere in this admission, but I have close to zero focus these days. This condition continually gets worse, my attention eroding with each passing year. My office is an assembly of stacked papers and books on the desk, ...
Guest opinion: Citizen initiatives are a needed check on legislative power
In Utah we have wrestled with the question of who should redraw legislative district lines since at least 2018, when voters approved Proposition 4, putting the power in the hands of an independent commission. Citizen initiatives have also been questioned in this process. This brings us to Dr. ...
GARVEY: Breakfast on the Hindenburg
I stumbled across an old menu the other day on social media, one claiming to be from 1937, for the passengers on a German zeppelin crossing the Atlantic. "Breakfast," it read, "on board the airship Hindenburg." The words dotted the page in elegant script like a poem: "Coffee, tea, ...
WILLIAMS: The task that lies ahead in Venezuela
Dictator and narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in a thrilling nighttime raid on his palace in Caracas, Venezuela, in an operation codenamed Operation Absolute Resolve. The mission involved over 150 aircraft launched from around 20 bases across the hemisphere. It ...
ERICKSON: Tragedy and reality
Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents engaged in federal law enforcement activities. Along with other protestors, Good involved herself in what federal agents were doing and used her car to block them. Confronted ...
Guest opinion: The persecution of Mark Kelly and the pattern behind it
The Trump administration’s move to strip Senator Mark Kelly of his military rank and retirement benefits is not an isolated bureaucratic dispute. It is part of a broader, deeply familiar pattern: the use of falsehoods, distortions, and punitive measures against those who challenge Donald ...