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Guest opinion: Aversion to the welfare state in the US

We are witnessing in political thinking and actions at all levels of governments, and among the median voter, that there is an increasing aversion against social spending to assist the poor or those at the lower end of the income distribution. This is even though it is well known that income ...

Guest opinion: Why I brought back Grillfest — and why Utah needs it

In the early 2010s, a group of us in Utah's underground music scene came together to transform a backyard into an amphitheater. We brought together all the things we loved most — tasty food, good music and each other. We called it Grillfest — a cheeky name for what was really just a family ...

BARONE: Are ex-presidents a help or hindrance?

For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution. You might expect former presidents to supply elements of personal ...

SHAPIRO: What will AI do for our happiness?

The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses more on redistributionism and top-down control than on innovation. But, we ...