“You should smile, life isn’t that bad.”
“Cheer up!”
“Smile, it makes you prettier.”
“You look miserable.”
These comments are only a few I have personally received. The social expectation...
Many people consider economists “scientists,” able to predict the future with graphs and curves. Such ignorant perspectives toward the field tend to gain extra traction during election periods, when...
In late June, a Utah man was charged with attempting to blow up federal property after a bomb failed to detonate outside a Bureau of Land Management cabin in Arizona. William Keebler, a leader of the anti-government...
Just days after one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history, four separate measures addressing gun restriction failed on the Senate floor. There has once again been another unthinkable tragedy; and...
Before I graduated high school, I remember visiting a friend at her dad’s house (let’s call him Bill), and the topic of homosexuality came up. Being the 60-something-year-old conservative Christian...
Tasteless, crude and inappropriate speech should always be reprimanded, regardless of the individual’s intention. One of the great things about society today is that we have become essentially unapologetic...
As the curtain rose on the set of “Wicked” in the summer of 2009, I had no idea what to expect. My 14-year-old self sat eagerly awaiting the mysterious magic about to unfold, bouncing on the edge of...
This morning I saw that KSL ran a story on North Carolina’s new law, which requires its residents to exclusively use the bathroom that corresponds to the assigned sex on their birth certificate. On KSL’s...
Last week, Salt Lake was marked as yet another city distinctly and publicly affected by the ongoing hurricane of media-fueled police harassment and violence. Police say Abdi Mohamed, the victim of the...
