How much time do you spend on social media a day? Do you spend 10 minutes scrolling through Instagram while you are lying in bed in the morning?  Do you open your browser during a particularly boring...

Civility is defined as politeness in speech and behavior; the ability to disagree without being disagreeable. The concept is not difficult, as we have all grown up on platitudes like Disney’s ‘if you...

Controversy in Utah often looks like the designation of Bears Ears National Monument, the arrest of Alex Wubbles or the replacement of Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott; however, It can also look like...

My first time on campus was more than a decade before I enrolled as a student. I was seven years old, dressed in the chestnut brown uniform of a Girl Scout Brownie and was an attendee of the Society of...

This past weekend, President Trump took issue with NFL players like Colin Kaepernick who choose to protest racial inequality in our country by kneeling during the national anthem. He claimed these players...

It began with Dylan. He is a 9-year-old kid who goes by the nickname Pickle, lives in California and had a Donald Trump themed birthday party. He wrote a letter to the president explaining how much he...

Sitting at a table facing a room of inquisitors, Jon Huntsman Jr. looks the role of a diplomat, not quite relaxed, but obviously resolved. His answers to the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

Dear Mr. Ralph Ellison, Thank you. If those two words weren’t used so frivolously, when someone opens the door or passes the salt, I would end my letter there in gratitude, sign my name and post...

Lady Justice is the idolization of an ideal passionately held by humans. Justice may vary slightly in meaning for specific individuals, but a constant definition includes equal treatment when seeking reparations...

A chipped painting of a white field and a bold red cross on cinder block in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, is the legacy of foreign aid after the 2010 earthquake. The same iconography is also visible in my own...