POSTED // Nov 21,2012 - I hate to see winter coming. It is not that I mind shoveling snow, wearing wool, shivering in cold cars or scraping icy windshields. What bothers me is ...

POSTED // Nov 14,2012 - Most Americans were shocked that retired four-star general and CIA Director David Petraeus resigned after admitting to an extramarital affair. Few should be surprised.

POSTED // Oct 31,2012 - As an American living abroad, the emotional debate about a government-run health-care option could be amusing were it not such a serious issue.

POSTED // Oct 24,2012 - Utah lawmakers aren’t trendy. They’re rarely progressive at anything—except when it comes to regressive legislation. But with voter ID, the conservatives running Utah’s Capitol Hill were positively avant-garde.

POSTED // Oct 17,2012 - We’ve all read about how women should love their bodies and how media has a negative effect on women’s self image. I’m not here to write another article on the subject, because you already know that media worships skinny,

POSTED // Oct 10,2012 - They appear in my neighborhood, abandoned on the sidewalk, miles away from the store whose name is printed on the handle. In the Jordan River, they rise like shipwrecks at low tide, exposed by low, late-summer flows of murky water. Where the down and out gather, you see them laden like packhorses with the essentials of street life.

POSTED // Oct 3,2012 - All KSL bosses had to do was wait. The New Normal is not Will & Grace. NBC’s show about a gay couple, their quirky gestational surrogate and her homophobic grandma, played to batty excess by Ellen Barkin, has none of the charm and breaks none of the ground the 1998 sitcom did.

POSTED // Sep 19,2012 - When they let the Big Dawg out in Charlotte, N.C., earlier this month, he gave them more than they hoped for. In a virtuoso performance, Bill Clinton galvanized the Democrats with a nomination speech that will set the standard for all those to come.

POSTED // Sep 5,2012 - A handful of my friends are conservatives. I don’t maintain those friendships out of tokenism—these misguided folks possess otherwise marvelous qualities.

POSTED // Aug 29,2012 - For Utahns, Mormons specifically, the weeks-long debate over Mitt Romney’s taxes had a back story. Because Mormons have a love-hate relationship with wealth.