4+ day, 33+ min ago   (614+ words) Letters from the U.S. Department of Justice have become a constant in Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson’s mail. As Utah’s chief election officer, she has refused to release private voter data despite threats of criminal prosecution from the agency, and has been…...

6+ day, 42+ min ago   (808+ words) History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I learned, for example, that Stalin met the exiled Vladimir Lenin more than…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (671+ words) When asked about Labor Day, I suspect most people immediately think about the benefits of having a three-day weekend in early September. It’s a day off! It’s time to head out of town or go fishing or have a barbecue…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (695+ words) As the 25th anniversary of 9/11 nears, the biggest disgrace is that the attack’s evil mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has not been tried and sentenced to death. Blame the American Civil Liberties Union, in large part, for this injustice. The ACLU intervened…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (602+ words) That’s where America is today. The fiscal warning could hardly be clearer. The government’s debt has now passed $40 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office projects a $1.9 trillion federal deficit for fiscal year 2026, with annual deficits rising to $3.1 trillion by 2036. Worse, borrowing…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (611+ words) An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), “Going Further,” calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (837+ words) The exterior of Orem's new city hall is pictured Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (Jacob Nielson, Daily Herald) A tax increase to cover costs for two new police officers was approved in a 5-2 vote at an Orem City Council Truth and Taxation meeting…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (978+ words) Though recent federal rulings have cast uncertainty over voting by mail with Utah’s November general elections around the corner, clerks — at least for now — are preparing for business as usual. “Any dramatic change at this point really is extremely impractical,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (580+ words) The rise of artificial intelligence is among the “greatest opportunities” at Brigham Young University and the Church Education System, but it should be used ethically and productively, Elder Garret W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (646+ words) Oh good, another war. This time a trade war with Canada and for no other reason than … what? To give Donald Trump a new stage for big-league bullying? To divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files? Who knows. Whatever. Trying…...