As we approach 2025, I’ve been thinking about and researching how we can better ensure that more girls and young women in our state can thrive. Importantly, I also care about boys and young men and encourage others to do that work as well. The bottom line is that we need to promote mental ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding and very beautifully clothed Pharisees. Jesus could hardly find words to describe them because they were so certain of themselves and yet so far ...

If ever there was a story with variations on a theme, it’s the Nativity story — the story of the birth of baby Jesus. Most versions include the same basic parts and pieces: a tired mom, a worried dad, an inn, a stable, some animals, then a star, then shepherds and finally wisemen. And ...

One of the most tragic conflicts of the Cold War era (1945-1991), took place between the southeast Asian counties of North and South Vietnam. With some help from the Soviet Union, the communist forces of North Vietnam eventually prevailed.  While U.S. support for South Vietnam did not prevent ...

The impending collapse of our public education system, as we know it, is unmistakably near. Overcrowded, underfunded and far apart, our public schools and universities will no longer be a place for academic curiosity, intellectual growth, critical thinking and social mobility. Instead, ...

In the lame duck period before the new administration, Congress is scrambling to pass regulations on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Pressure is rising from within Utah as influencers are urging Sen. Mike Lee and incoming Sen. John Curtis to act against them. But this pressure is not ...