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Guest opinion: What Trump won’t do

Donald Trump has won America's presidential election. Many have long worried that a Trump victory would place American democracy in jeopardy. Washington Post Columnist Ishaan Tharoor, for example, detailed myriad ways he thinks a victorious Trump would subvert American democracy: “As my ...

Guest opinion: America limited its choices and its chances in 2024

America approached the 2024 election like there were only two choices for the future of the country. Those two choices were two individual personalities championing the policies of two different political parties. There actually was and is a third choice. It may not have been on the ballot, ...

Guest opinion: The robots can’t have everything

With the increasing presence of generative artificial intelligence in the written word, I fear for the future of literature. ChatGPT and I are friends. I knew early on that with AI-written content slowly churning out the same repeated drivel on social media and (unfortunately) some ...

Guest opinion: Will Utah Latter-day Saints cast their votes for Korihor?

The 2024 presidential election among Latter-day Saint members is heavily energized in Utah, and the contrast between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris is clear. In a few recent speeches to LDS groups, I compared Mr. Trump to a Book of Mormon personality, Korihor. He was a source of deception back ...

Guest opinion: Upward, please; not forward

I have never logged into my bank or savings account and wondered if it was forward that day. When I worked in finance, no client ever asked me if the stock market or their brokerage account was forward today. It was always, "Am I up or down," and by what percentage. This may seem obvious, but ...