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Guest opinion: Are 62% of Utahns ‘extremists’?

Labels like “far right” and “far left” get thrown around so much these days that they perhaps don’t mean anything anymore. How “far” one person’s worldview is from another’s is a matter of perspective. But if 62% of people agree on something, that’s the mainstream. This is ...

Zito: Is Pittsburgh still stronger than hate?

PITTSBURGH — For the first couple of years after the Tree of Life synagogue massacre that claimed the lives of 11 members of the Jewish community, Joe Mistick could not bring himself to drive past the synagogue despite its close proximity to his Squirrel Hill home. "For years, I would do ...

Erickson: Discredited and clueless

This week, an important revelation happened in Hunter Biden's criminal trial. After 51 supposed intelligence experts declared his laptop and the information thereon to be a Russian disinformation campaign, it turns out the laptop and its contents are real. In 2020, media outlets ganged up on ...

Barone: Using a ‘sham case’ to undermine democracy

"A sham case, and everyone knows it." So writes the iconoclastic Matt Taibbi, once counted as a left-wing writer, and he's not the only one from outside MAGA precincts who has been appalled by the Manhattan district attorney's case that produced a guilty verdict against former President Donald ...