Year: 2016

It’s easy to forget how many prominent Republicans there are in Utah or, in Mitt Romney’s case, who are very influential in Utah. There’s former senator Bob Bennett and the two sitting senators, Orrin Hatch and...

This is just a quick piece. I am not going to try to fully re-litigate President Obama’s decision to not enforce his red line in Syria. However, I want to begin by noting one of the most critical pieces of information in...

I don’t have a huge problem with Bernie Sanders complaining about the superdelegates, but I have to point out a few ironies. Just two weeks ago, I was explaining to angry Sanders’ supporters in the comments that it...

Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin provides a broadly accurate history of the resurrection of Richard Nixon in the context of the populist uprising presented by then-Alabama Governor George Wallace. Much of this piece is contentious...

beginning every conversation with: “were you aware that the global average temperature for [February 2016] was 2.18 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average[?] Could that maybe even begin to make the needed...