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 ...
Utah families have long understood that each of their children is unique and learns differently. Rebecca, a Salt Lake City mom of a 7-year old, watched her son struggle in public school under a mountain of worksheets and requirements to sit still. So she brought him home, where he has since ...
In the debate over the future of higher education, an erroneous assumption lingers like inverted air pollution over the Salt Lake Valley: that the pinnacle of academic research and its impact on our world is reserved for the ivied halls of elite institutions of higher education, and regional ...
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 ...
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 ...
Despite assertions of immutability and consistency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint positions on sexuality and gender have proven fragile and changeable across time. Throughout much of the 19th century, for example, plural marriage between a man and multiple women was taught as ...
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 ...
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 ...
It seems that a day doesn’t go by without a highly acclaimed scholar being accused of scientific fraud, which can range from manipulating data and results to plagiarism. When caught, studies that are trusted and “settled science” are retracted. However, the damage may already have been ...
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 ...
