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Alvarado: RuPaul's Drag Race Helped Me To Be A Better Feminist

Alvarado: RuPaul’s Drag Race Helped Me To Be A Better Feminist

By Andrea Alvarado August 24, 2018

Drag is not a new phenomenon. Wearing clothes of the opposite sex as a form of entertainment can be traced back to Shakespeare’s era when male actors had the task of playing the female characters in...

Barron: Increase Mental Health Resources to Protect Utah's Youth

Barron: Increase Mental Health Resources to Protect Utah’s Youth

By Morgan Barron, Opinion Writer August 23, 2018

1 in 10 high school students will attempt suicide this year, 1 in 3 will need serious medical attention, and 5,000 young Americans (15 to 25 years old) will die from self-inflicted injuries. While statistics...

Cho: Innate Inclination Towards Racism

Cho: Innate Inclination Towards Racism

By Joon Cho August 23, 2018

People have biases. That is a universal fact considering humans are programmed to pattern their ideas and judgments according to their social surroundings. Common examples include everything from simple...

Scott: Mormon Pioneers Would Stand with Immigrants

Scott: Mormon Pioneers Would Stand with Immigrants

By Elise Scott, Opinion Writer August 22, 2018

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...

Alvarado: True Feminism Is Not Blind Support for Other Women

Alvarado: True Feminism Is Not Blind Support for Other Women

By Andrea Alvarado August 21, 2018

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....

Petersen: Utah Conservatives Are Wrong to Reject #MeToo

Petersen: Utah Conservatives Are Wrong to Reject #MeToo

By Josh Petersen August 17, 2018

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,...

Brown: Silicon Valley Has Deliberately Designed Habitually Addictive Platforms

Brown: Silicon Valley Has Deliberately Designed Habitually Addictive Platforms

By Jacob Brown August 12, 2018

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"...

Petersen: LGBTQ Media's Failures in Representation

Petersen: LGBTQ Media’s Failures in Representation

By Josh Petersen August 11, 2018

In the Trump era, LGBTQ Americans are living through a maddening paradox. On one hand, the quality of life for many queer people has improved immeasurably in recent years. Homosexual people can legally...

Cho: Culture in Cultureless America

Cho: Culture in Cultureless America

By Joon Cho August 11, 2018

America has no culture. This young country formed on the heels of revolution during an 18th century rebellion against the then-superpower England and has transformed greatly since those days of tumult....

Sonnenberg: Pro-Life Hypocrisy

Sonnenberg: Pro-Life Hypocrisy

By Kristiane Sonnenberg August 2, 2018

The tragedy of family separations at the American border highlights the hypocrisy of the traditional pro-life movement. One of the largest national pro-life organizations, the Susan B. Anthony List, said...