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Stiehm: In Trump they trust — Bread and circuses

WASHINGTON — An ancient Roman poet foresaw former President Donald Trump as a deposed ruler raging to regain power: in a famous line, with "bread and circuses." Master satirist Juvenal poked at corruption in Rome's leaders. Yet he also aimed his pen at the people, who lost their right to ...

Robbins: America digests the specter of inmate No. PO1135809

It wasn't a midnight train to Georgia that carried the 19 criminal defendants charged by a Fulton County grand jury to that county's sheriff's office to have their mug shots taken last week, but one by one they all made the humiliating trek to the local jail to post the bond needed to avoid ...

Letter: Big money in Orem elections

Remember Proposition 2, the effort to create an Orem-only school district? It was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters by over 70%. Well, Todd Pedersen, who, along with Alex Dunn spent hundreds of thousands of dollars last year trying to sway voters to support Prop 2, is back. Perhaps you ...

Erickson: The first debate

On Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Republican voters finally got a chance to see all the Republicans on stage for the first time — all, that is, except the front-runner, former President Donald Trump. He chose to do an interview with Tucker Carlson that streamed on Twitter. After the ...

Garvey: Back to school, or as I call it, Armistice Day

Today, the skies were bluer, the sun brighter and the birds' chirps sweeter. For today, my friends, the kids went back to school. As my children and their compatriots, sweetly arrayed in their first-day finery, trotted into the building, one mom collapsed, sobbing, into a friend's arms. "I ...