Question: The Inflation Reduction Act, which just passed Congress without a single Republican vote, includes three provisions the Biden administration, and nonpartisan experts, say have the potential to reduce the deficit by more than $300 billion. First, the bill includes $80 billion in additional funding for the IRS over the next 10 years, including an…
Question: The hearings of the January 6th committee have exposed problematical behavior by President Donald Trump following the 2020 election. Donald Trump was aware of meetings in a Washington, D.C. hotel during which legal advisers Rudy Giuliani and James Eastman worked on a plan to replace legitimate Dem- ocratic electors with “fake” Republican electors at the…
Question: The leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe vs. Wade, a 50-year-old precedent, has opened up the potential for states to enact a torrent of laws restricting abortion. Some of the proposed state laws do not make exceptions for rape or incest. There has been talk of charging any medical…
Question: The evidence suggests Ketanji Brown Jackson is a highly qualified, mainstream judge. The American Bar Association rated her as “well qualified,” its highest rating. She was endorsed by the National Fraternal Order of Police. Eighty-three former state attorneys general, Democrats and Republicans, called on the Senate to approve her nomination “as quickly as possible.”…
A deal for NATO countries to send fighter jets, which Politico says could be a “game changer” for Ukraine, apparently has fallen apart. And all NATO allies have declined to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Are those correct decisions?
In 2018, Utah voters approved a proposition establishing an independent redistricting advisory commission. In 2020, a commission was appointed, held hearings around the state and issued what many regarded as fair maps.
Is climate change real? If so, is it human-caused? If it is human-caused, what can and should the United States, in concert with other nations, be doing about it?
Is it time to eliminate a statutory ceiling on the debt altogether so no vote of Congress is required for the government to take on more debt? Is there the political will to attack the root problem, the debt itself?
Was President Biden right to cut off American involvement in Afghanistan? Or would it have been in the best interests of the United States and the Afghani people to leave a small American or NATO force in the country indefinitely?
Less than half of the U.S population and only 45 percent of the Utah population is fully vaccinated, despite shots being widely available and free. This raises some questions about individual rights versus the greater good. Do people have a right, by declining to be vaccinated, to put themselves and others at risk of lengthy…
Editor’s note: Both authors of the following article refer to “ballot gathering” or “ballot harvesting.” The term refers to unions or other interest groups collecting mail-in ballots from members and mailing them for the members. Another term in the article is “voter caging.” This is sending a letter to all registered voters. If a letter…
Question: On April 20, a jury found Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, guilty of three counts of murder in the death of George Floyd, a black man who had a drug history. What was not admissible at the trial was the fact that in Chauvin’s 20 years on the force, 18 complaints of misconduct…
Why have politicians, particularly in the past 10-15 years, come to see success as defeating the other party’s initiatives at the expense of the good of the country? Even when their opponents’ proposals are very popular with their constituents, representatives will fight against them. Why are these senators and representatives reelected, then? Steve Clark: Let’s…
Question: Gas prices are rising dramatically, thousands of workers have abruptly lost their jobs, and America is reentering international agreements which critics say could cripple our economy and permanently disadvantage American businesses, and it’s all being done by executive order rather than legislation. Are Joe Biden’s executive orders helping or hindering American society and industries?
U.S. must come to grips with health care costs, basic care for uninsured 2-3-2021 There are 28.9 million Americans who have no medical insurance—and that number is rising. With today’s enormous medical costs, major illnesses and accidents can wipe out a family financially, creating poverty that can be impossible to overcome….