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 ...
My state ghosted the primary. Well, not everyone did, but more than enough did to make turnout historically low. Nearly four out of five registered voters in Chicago, for example, skipped the election. (That's to say nothing of the folks who never registered in the first place.) The figures ...
The world is headed into Holy Week, the holiest of times for the world's more than 2 billion Christians. Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem as a king on Palm Sunday; was tortured, crucified, killed and buried on Friday; and rose again on Easter Sunday. It is one of the ...
Dana Fuchs’ March 22 guest column is dangerous, hateful propaganda. No one wants animals to be euthanized for lack of homes—least of all, the compassionate people who must perform this act of mercy in order to keep shelters’ doors open to the endless stream of animals in need. But forcing ...
Donald Trump's anodyne if overexcited comment that the U.S. auto industry would face a "bloodbath" if he's not elected and doesn't impose 50% or 100% tariffs on cars produced predictable results. "Don't outsmart yourself," Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) posted, and Joe Biden's campaign promptly ...
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 ...
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison set about to draft the Bill of Rights — the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution — he was articulating what lawyers and philosophers and judges call ...
If you started right now from one, and continued counting every second of every day, it would take you ≈ 11.5 days to count to one million; ≈ 31 years to count to one billion; and ≈ 31,000 years to count to one trillion. As of 2024 — and per the government’s own projections — the ...
The Utah Republican State platform states in the preamble, it "supports a government based upon a moral and spiritual foundation". In the section on Ethics and Standards, the party states, "We demand honesty, integrity, morality and accountability of our public officials." Under Equal Rights, ...
