Opinion
Stiehm: Cherry tree therapy for the House GOP?
Garavito Martinez: Words can harm; let’s also use them to help and heal
Robbins: Democrats’ feeble wobble on Hamas risks sinking Biden
Erickson: Pause
Garvey: Fishing in the tainted pond of politics
Guest opinion: Electoral College helps Putin
Letter: ‘No-kill’ animal shelter policies do more harm than good
Barone: The electric car fiasco
Guest opinion: Making sense of the LDS Church’s mixed messaging on LGBT issues
Stiehm: Cherry tree therapy for the House GOP?
Washington's pink cherry blossoms, a spring sight for sore eyes, are about to be whacked. The Park Service says 150 trees must be cut down to build a new seawall round the Tidal Basin, where the marble Jefferson Monument perches perfectly on the water. That calls up the legend of young George ...
Guest opinion: The unsung value of economic research at regional public universities
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 ...
Garavito Martinez: Words can harm; let’s also use them to help and heal
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 ...
Robbins: Democrats’ feeble wobble on Hamas risks sinking Biden
You can blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for plenty of things, and plenty of Israelis do. These include his cynical maneuvering to avoid being held to account on criminal charges, his alliances with nut jobs in his coalition government and the gross negligence that left Israel ...
Erickson: Pause
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 ...
Garvey: Fishing in the tainted pond of politics
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 ...
Barone: The electric car fiasco
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 ...
Letter: ‘No-kill’ animal shelter policies do more harm than good
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 ...
Guest opinion: Electoral College helps Putin
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 ...
Guest opinion: Making sense of the LDS Church’s mixed messaging on LGBT issues
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 ...