On Jan. 6, ABC4 reported new additions to Utah’s list of banned books, which resulted in a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union against the state of Utah. Said the ACLU in a press release, according to the article: “These laws undermine students’ fundamental freedoms by ...

Let's take a minute to do a little thought exercise. For the next couple of minutes, try to step back from the emotions and fears and political views and focus on the people. Imagine being an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly referred to as ICE) today. I'll ...

Many people worry that acknowledging differences between girls and boys — or between women and men — will reinforce stereotypes. Yet research increasingly shows that ignoring those differences can have the very same effect. Scholars like Dr. Leonard Sax argue that overlooking sex‑based ...

Northern Utah has always been a land of contrasts: mountains and valleys, pioneers and tech bros, Cougars and Utes. But lately, the region has embraced a new identity: America’s premier climate-change laboratory, complete with a once great lake, vanishing snow, dust storms, forest fires, and ...

This year, I had no New Year’s resolutions. I’ve been wondering about that. Does it have to do with the peculiar winter we’ve been having? Most of December and early January felt like March, minus the crocuses, and so there was no weather-related catalyst for self-reflection, no seasonal ...

Think about it. Heads of government do not normally reveal the texts of private communications from other heads of state. Yet that is what Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway did Sunday, on the first weekend of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where the international press ...