Trustees of the Social Security program just issued their annual report. Each year, the picture of the program's solvency is dismal. But this year it's even worse. Rather than falling short in 2033, as reported last year, this year the shortfall is projected to be in late 2032. That's ...

Are the campaign texts, fliers in the mail and candidate ads on social media getting annoying? Probably so, but these minor irritations are part of an important process that will affect all of us. Even though it’s not November, which is typically election season, it’s an important time to ...

Utah’s education system has leaned hard into workforce readiness. In K-12, students build college and career readiness plans, middle schoolers take the class College and Career Awareness, and the state’s Career and Technical Education system explicitly aims to align learning with Utah’s ...

When workers scraped Donald Trump's name off the Donald Trump and John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center, they should have kept going. They should have taken Kennedy's name off as well and restored the building to its original, simple title, the National Culture Center. After President ...

I consumed a lot of horror movies during my teen years. For a couple of my friends, my room became the hub where we watched the standard fare of slashers, munched on overly processed snacks, and critiqued the characters' decisions as they ran for their lives. We, of course, would make better, ...

Most times when I'm invited to speak at a conference, someone introduces me by reading the short bio provided. But this past week at the Southeastern Writers' Association Conference, my friend, the Georgia judge and novelist Lori Duff, introduced me. She started off by warning she might ...