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Hibben: A Roe v. Wade Reversal Could Mean the End of an Unbiased Supreme Court

By Aya Hibben, Opinion Writer November 20, 2021

  This December, the Supreme Court will start hearing arguments of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which challenged a Mississippi law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks. Jackson...

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Buening: Toxic Communication Equals a Toxic Political Environment

By Sarah Buening, Assistant Opinion Editor November 19, 2021

  I’m an opinionated person. If you are too, you understand the uncomfortable situations being opinionated can land you in. Maybe you also anticipate a loaded Thanksgiving dinner debate with...

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Cushman: U.S. Anti-Tax Rhetoric Blocks Good Tax Policy

By KC Ellen Cushman, Opinion Writer November 19, 2021

  As a kid, my parents prepared their tax forms every tax season and always complained about the same thing. They constantly told me how much I would hate taxes when I grew up, and that taxes were...

The sun rises over mountains in Salt Lake City on Friday, Nov. 13, 2021. (Photo by Brooklyn Critchley | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Shadley: The Times Are Changing, so Let’s Stop Changing Them Twice a Year

By Will Shadley, Opinion Writer November 18, 2021

  Earlier this month we all participated in the archaic tradition of setting our clocks back an hour. We spend a few days joking about the time change, venting about how “it gets dark so early...

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Alexander: Ahmaud Arbery’s Case Feels Hopeless

By CJ Alexander, Special Projects Managing Editor November 18, 2021

  Trying the killers of Ahmaud Arbery is officially underway, more than a year after the horrifying incident. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was out jogging when Gregory McMichael and his son,...

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Linnabary: It is Finally Infrastructure Week

By Ian Linnabary, Opinion Writer November 18, 2021

  Since the passing of The American Rescue plan, every week has been infrastructure week. Since the passage of the nearly $2 trillion stimulus package, the Biden administration has promised to...

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Buening: Fossil Fuel Corporations Subvert Democracy

By Sarah Buening, Assistant Opinion Editor November 12, 2021

  On Oct. 28, 2021, executives from four major oil companies appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Under oath and before Congress, the leaders of ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron...

Police Officers assemble outside of The University of Utah in Salt Lake on October 7th, 2020. (Photo by Jake Stranzl | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Alexander: Shooting to Incapacitate Should Not Be Controversial

By CJ Alexander, Special Projects Managing Editor November 12, 2021

  A new reformative policy is circulating police conversations — “shoot-to-incapacitate.” Shooting to incapacitate means to aim for the arms, legs or pelvic area to wound a person and...

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Hibben: Trump’s Desperation Has Hit an All-new Low

By Aya Hibben, Opinion Writer November 11, 2021

  Attempts to investigate the planning and execution of the January 6th insurrection attack have been thwarted by former President Donald Trump. The House committee in charge of investigating...

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Linnabary: There Is Renewed Hope for the GOP

By Ian Linnabary, Opinion Writer November 11, 2021

  Not many can say that their childhood bedroom was decorated with GOP elephants, but I can. My dad was very involved with politics, so some of my core childhood memories are at campaign events....