What does it say about our nightmarish news cycle when a celebrity apology feels like a breath of fresh air? Maybe it’s the 2018 talking, but “refreshing” was the first word that came to my mind...
Sometime between the development of ARPANET and the Senate hearing with Mark Zuckerberg, the tech industry transformed from an industry offering consumers a new world of personal freedom and productivity...
There are two surefire ways to make the internet an unpleasant experience: bring up politics on social media and then read the comments that follow.
The Venn diagram between online politics and online...
A little more than a year ago, the University of Utah hosted a lecture with Barry Scheck, one of the co-founders of a nonprofit, The Innocence Project, which works nationwide to overturn wrongful convictions....
My upbringing was defined by distrust and hyperbole. I was raised in a home that valued independence and privacy, hid emergency food storage in the basement, and nursed a vague distrust of a large, centralized...
In the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly successfully won the battle against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). She appointed herself as the “champion of mothers and wives” while condemning the feminist movement....
Of all the traditionally conservative Americans who do not feel aligned with President Trump, the Republicans of Utah may be the most distant from the man who radically changed the GOP. Many Utah conservatives,...
In 2014, the viral mobile game Flappy Bird was suddenly taken off Apple's App Store by its creator. Intended only to be played casually, the creator had accidentally implemented what he considered "addictive"...
During the first Republican debate, Megyn Kelly became the face of the opposition to the antics of Donald Trump. Despite working for Fox News, which is traditionally considered to align with the Republican...
About a month ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the nation, ousting the district’s incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley in the primary election for New York's 14th Congressional District. Crowley...
