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  • Frank Pignanelli LaVarr Webb How will these national scandals affect Utah politics

    In the past two weeks, Americans were confronted with the fact that their government engaged in activities repugnant to democratic societies — cover up of mistakes in protecting foreign diplomats, IRS probes of conservative political organizations and secret seizure of more than 100 journalists' phone records. We offer insightful examination (in other words, LaVarr needling Frank, ...

  • Its Not Just About Sexual Violence

    If the Hague initiative is going to make a real difference in the lives of women, it needs to take a broader view of the problem and address the full spectrum of women's needs during conflict. It should also consider what happens to women when the wars end and the soldiers go home - violence against women doesn't automatically end with the ...

  • South China Sea dispute Taiwan flexes its muscles | Editorial

    China Sea. Ten days ago, a Philippine coast guard ship went too far in chasing off a Taiwanese fishing vessel in disputed waters. Such actions involve water cannons and the damage is nothing worse than a few broken portholes. This time the coast guard ship loosed off 54 rounds into the side of the Taiwanese boat and killed a fisherman. ...

  • World worries about Syria Washington stuck on Benghazi

    The world is worried about Syria. But the United States (or at least Washington) is more focused on Libya. Not about that country’s lawless disintegration in the post-Gadhafi era, but about Benghazi, and the timeline of events before, during and after four Americans were slain there last Sept. 11. What to some is modern media’s version of a smoking gun ...

  • Minnesota program cuts costs for poor — compassionately

    Ezekiel Allen’s weary voice and his long list of medical challenges - schizophrenia, a back injury, bipolar condition, high blood pressure, brain polyps, dental troubles, migraine headaches - make him sound far older than his 45 years. Homeless for a number of years, Allen didn’t see a doctor regularly for far too long. When the pain of his conditions became overwhelming, ...


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The Avengers (2012)

The Avengers (2012)

One could argue that the long-awaited arrival of The Avengers marks the cinemas closest approximation to date of the extreme breadth and flexibility of the comic book universe. Up until now, the movie industry has been content to seize on a single superhero and spin out a serie ... ...

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  • Marriage and much more How Minnesotas 2010 election mattered

    Here is a surprising hypothesis: The 2012 referendum that rejected labeling marriage as being only between one man and one woman in the state Constitution was not the real referendum that propelled gay marriage toward being legalized in Minnesota. The key vote came in 2010, disguised as a gubernatorial race. It was a multiple contest between three candidates -- Independence Party nominee Tom ...

  • On Syria R2P doctrine guides the way

    The Responsibility to Protect doctrine adopted by the United Nations guides the way. It feels like there’s renewed hope. The R2P doctrine offers a way ...

  • Blunder in Burma Scrapping of EU Sanctions Sends Wrong Message

    Over the past two years, Burma has been emerging from 50 years of brutal military rule at a breathtaking pace. The country has made some impressive and unprecedented changes, including the release of many political prisoners, the rolling back of censorship and the lifting of restrictions to allow opposition political parties, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, to ...

  • A New Chance to Act on Guantanamo

    The last time Amina al-Rabeii video conferenced from Yemen with her brother Salman, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, she barely recognized the skeletal man on the screen. "His eyes were sunken into dark recesses," al-Rabeii told me when we met recently in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. "He was slumped in his chair and he could barely keep his head up. He ...

  • Mark Mother’s Day by Reforming Family Leave Laws in US

    Diana T. worked full-time for a large retail store in the US when she became pregnant. Her manager was unhappy about her pregnancy and about Diana’s six-week unpaid maternity leave. Her employer refused to pay her accrued sick time during leave. Diana’s baby was born with asthma, and doctors suspected she had cystic fibrosis. Diana had severe post-partum depression. Diana’s ...

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