Lately the complex connection between people and nature has been on my mind, as another semester closes on the course I team-teach in Weber State University’s General Education program. The interdisciplinary course examines the cultural origins of attitudes toward nature and how those views ...

Many in the Democratic base are frustrated that their party isn't pounding away at Donald Trump over his attacks on the rule of law, academic independence and decency. That's not quite the case. Democrats and others opposed to the president's toxic agenda are seeing some success in the ...

On April 10, the day before my birthday, my husband saw a handwritten sign at the gym: “Tomorrow, April 11th, has the fewest historical events on the calendar, making it officially the most boring day of the year.” Hmph! It’s always been a good day for me. I was the first grandchild on ...

It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private-sector workers, down from 6% in ...

Looks like the Congressional District 1 Senate and House members (Curtis and Moore) won't be having any Town Halls during the April Recess (April 12-27). I emailed both the first of this month to inquire. Curtis responded with an obvious boiler-plate response extolling his past townhalls but ...

"That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves." — Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in pamphlets, editorials ...