Since 2005, “The Colbert Report” has been making Americans laugh and learn more about our politics and government. Since this is the pop culture issue, what better subject to write about than...

While I do not always abide by it, I truly love the law. In this tumultuous, shadowy world, the law is designed to be humanity’s guiding light. At its heart, it is a projection of our intangible...

Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times journalist and author of the influential globalization treatise “The World Is Flat: A Brief History of The Twenty-first Century,” wrote in 2004, “When...

According to a 2011 Harvard study, only 56 percent of students who begin a bachelor’s degree program in America finish within six years. Why do so many college students drop out? A Pew Research...

The big story in America recently has been Ferguson, Mo., where in August, Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson. In the following months, protests and civil unrest have been captured...

The stigma that surrounds mental health disorders is familiar to many Americans — in 2012 there were 9.6 million adults with a serious mental illness in the United States, and that number has been...

This weekend, I finally saw “Interstellar.” It was an enthralling, imaginative and thought-provoking film with eye-popping cinematography and tear-jerking examinations of love and relationships....

“Black people can’t be racist — racism describes a system of disadvantage based on race,” said character Samantha White in “Dear White People,” the smart indie comedy...

Every winter, as Salt Lake’s notorious inversion sets in, blanketing our beautiful valley in a thick, toxic haze, air quality becomes a common topic of conversation. You start to see people wearing...

I don’t mean to alarm you, but finals are only a few weeks away. It’s that final stretch of the semester, and it can be pretty stressful. There are a lot of ways to alleviate stress, but one...