We need stronger school-community partnerships, especially around gun violence prevention. I’ve sat in multiple legislative committee hearings on firearms and anything restrictive is dead on arrival — pun intended. Rationale for killing constitutional common sense gun safety rules always ...

Sept. 17-23 was Constitution Week — a time to give thanks for our constitutional system of government that protects individual rights and lays the foundation for a stable democracy through a structure of checks and balances. One of the most important features of the U.S. Constitution is that ...

In the modern era, we are more aware of global health disparities than ever before. As such, it is natural to want to engage in helping to lessen those disparities. This is what we are seeing with short-term medical missions (STMM). Short-term medical missions are a form of unregulated medical ...

For more than a decade, Washington has talked a big game about breaking China’s grip on the world’s mineral supplies. And both presidents Trump and Biden have labeled America’s mineral vulnerability — along with China’s mineral dominance — an unacceptable and urgent risk. The ...

There’s an old story about a monkey needing to cross a great river. A smooth-talking crocodile convinces the monkey that he will take him across safely on his tail. In one version of the story, the crocodile entices the monkey to come closer to his head, with promises of a safer ride, until ...

In 1852, the second prophet-president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, implemented a ban on people of African descent from holding the priesthood and accessing temple rituals, both of which are required for entrance into the highest degree of heaven in LDS ...