When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, Senate Republicans went into panic mode and a political power struggle took precedent over the healthy functioning of our democratic system....
The strong presence of outsiders has changed the political landscape of the 2016 election considerably. Strategies that most people would doom to failure have resulted in some amazing successes. Few would...
Battle of wits, or grown men throwing fits? On March 21, 2016 Republican presidential debates will be coming to Salt Lake City. This will mark the first time that a presidential debate of any kind has...
The word “politicize” has become fairly common in the media, especially since Obama took office. It’s often used to deride the president for taking social issues and making them a problem of government...
I share a sentiment tweeted by master of the horror genre, Stephen King. He wrote, “The stupidest, ugliest Presidential campaign in my entire life: HOUSE OF CARDS meets SHARKNADO.” While the reference...
Sanders' Free Higher Education Would Hinder the Economy
by Emma Tanner
Last week when I was walking to my car on campus I noticed a political sign in someone’s window that said something along the...
This has got to be the freakiest presidential election the United States has ever hosted. Americans fed up with “career politicians” have rushed to fill the corner of a man whose only qualifying virute...
An article I read recently in The New Yorker criticized the Ammon Bundy-led militia standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge for being behind the times. Bundy and a host of other Westerners made a...
With its presidential frontrunner a hateful billionaire, its next-in-line a Tea Party politician who has shut down the government in the past and its efforts to oust John Boehner nearly gone horribly wrong,...
