As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state protections would spread across the globe, I naturally look back over the intervening long ...
Utah is not exempt from a nationwide trend. Rising health care costs have crippled small businesses and working families. The crisis demands systemic change; on this, most Republicans and Democrats agree. And yet, special interest groups refuse to read the room, shamelessly pushing for ...
There has been a spate of hand-wringing and pearl-clutching on these pages of late. A coordinated effort, it seems, by members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government opining on the new president and his choices for cabinet level nominees. They deem them un-ethical, if you're unsure. Makes one ...
Politics, my mentor Andrew Breitbart famously stated, is downstream of culture. By that, Andrew meant that culture shapes and embodies our values as a society; we then vote based on those values. From church to music, from movies to television, we are affected by the things we see and hear — ...
On Feb. 4, I listened to over an hour of debate on House Bill 300. This bill would do two significant things: 1) require ID verification when dropping ballots off at ballot drop boxes or polling locations, and 2) require a voter to deliver an application in person at least 45 days before an ...
WASHINGTON — Only three weeks old, the new Trump presidential power in town knows the price of everything (except eggs) and the value of nothing, as Oscar Wilde observed of fools and cynics. Let's add "shameless." Shame has left the stately building at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. The city on the ...
