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ERICKSON: The status quo versus the alternative

The last two weeks have been, like the preceding weeks, nuts. The president insisted the United States must own Greenland and he would not rule out military force, if necessary, to take the island. He imposed tariffs on the NATO allies who oppose his territorial lust. Then he walked it all back ...

DE RUGY: ‘RINOs,’ Meet the ‘Depublicans’

For some years now, conservatives who believe in free markets and limited government have been labeled RINOs -- "Republicans in name only" -- as GOP liberals or moderates have historically been known. The MAGA movement flings this term as an insult and a signal that respecting the realities of ...

LETTER: My form of Trump Derangement Syndrome

The President and his allies are fond of saying anyone who criticizes him suffers from “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” His actions on tariffs, killing people on the high seas, backing himself into a corner on Greenland, unleashing ICE, groveling after a Nobel Peace Prize, and other actions, ...

LETTER: Trump’s actions show instability

We’re watching a sitting president whose mental fitness is so clearly compromised that America’s closest allies are preparing to treat the U.S. like a rogue state. They’re not preparing tariffs because of policy disagreements, they’re preparing them because they’ve concluded, quite ...

LETTER: What should Utahns want?

Our representatives' mandate is to represent the wishes of its constituents. They don’t. 82% of Utahns want existing monuments kept intact; 57% oppose states getting control over national public lands, and 85% want professionals to make decisions concerning public lands. 76% want water, air, ...