Tag: politics
Red state resistance: Action St. George organizes southern Utahns for political...
Saturday morning in a St. George cafe, I’m here to meet with Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva --- local academic, historian, and representative of a newly-formed...
On feminism, psychedelics, and why I’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton
Like seemingly everyone else at the Independent, I identify as a feminist. However, unlike everyone else at the Independent, I would never vote for...
Musings and lessons from a six-million-year-old canyon
“The ship is always off course. Anybody who sails knows that. Sailing is being off course and correcting. That gives a sense of what...
The problem with political labels
As a communication studies professor who specializes in studying intercultural interactions, I am constantly amazed at how desperately so many people in our country...
Trumping the 2016 presidential election
I’m supposed to have an opinion. Generally, when writing an opinion column, that’s the case. And certainly as an educated person with strong feelings...
Is Donald Trump what America really wants?
Is Donald Trump what America really wants? Or needs, even? Are there so many people out there so pissed off they simply want to...
Charlene Albarran shouldn’t make me hopeful, should she?
I met Charlene Albarran on Wednesday at a local coffee house, and she made me more hopeful than I wanted to be. In fact,...
A time for self-appraisal
It's that annual time for self-appraisal, and I, no less than others, feel somehow morally compelled to participate.
During this time for self-appraisal, my own stock-taking...
The two-party dynamic has created a broken system
I try not to read the news too frequently, because I know that it’s never the real story. There’s no such thing as the...
The nontraditional Thanksgiving
Over the past five years, our family has experienced the most nontraditional Thanksgiving celebrations I could have ever imagined.
It's not as if we've celebrated the...