The U. S. political system, being a two-party approach, puts pressure on citizens to choose either a left-winged or a right-winged viewpoint. Once an American has declared a side, a sense of loyalty to...

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? The Utah Legislature is. Utah’s legislators recently gave the lobbyist group, Big Game Forever, $300,000 to lobby against the Mexican gray wolf’s return to the...

.post_author_plugin {visibility:hidden;display:none;} Religion lags in changing world Matt Stern With one of the most interesting papal transitions in recent memory now behind us, we have a unique opportunity...

In the early 1990s we, Salt Lake City police officers, knew our beats. We knew the people who lived there and the community dynamics. And the citizens we served knew us and trusted us to protect them....

While the American military has been flexing its muscles for decades in the Middle East, Near East and Africa, China has quietly and steadfastly been building a system of armed forces that could challenge...

Utah, true to its laissez-faire style of governance, lacks any meaningful protections against the excesses of payday lending institutions. As a result, these lenders are able to — and no doubt choose...

Masculinity is a term layered with meaning and expectations — a term that has remained a symbol of what a man should be, rather than a description of how some men can be. If you were asked to discuss...

Beginning at a young age, women are subjected to an unrealistic idea of what beauty is supposed to be. Advertisements, magazines, movies and billboards display female role models promoting unobtainable...

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri led hundreds of thousands of anti-American drone protestors on a march against his government in Pakistan Jan. 13. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has accepted billions of...

Fiachra Gibbons once said of Stéphane Hessel, “the great [man] is dead — a man who symbolized the best of France having survived the worst of it.” On Feb. 26, the world lost a magnificent man and...