Since the rise of Trump, it's been tempting to revise our collective memory of the 2012 election and make Mitt Romney seem like a good guy. After all, he smiles a lot, he seems like a loving grandfather, and he did invent Obamacare. I've gone easy on him too: on my second day of ...read more

On Saturday, Utah added itself to the list of Republican-controlled states that have no damn business passing laws that have to do with women's reproductive health. Governor Gary Herbert signed a bill  into law that requires abortion doctors to tell women the fairy tale that ...read more

On Wednesday, President Obama issued an order setting aside 1.35 million acres of land in Southern Utah for the Bears Ears National Monument. According to the White House, the president's action was in response to a proposal from the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, which is ...read more

Gov. Gary Herbert, Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, all running for re-election in Utah, have now publicly denounced Donald Trump in the wake of a video in which Donald Trump brags about sexually assaulting women. If none of them pay a substantial penalty for turning on ...read more

By Alice Ross: In the small town of Bluffdale in the Utah desert, the US government is halfway to completing a gargantuan complex designed to store and trawl through billions of phone calls, emails, and other global communications. As the UK government reveals its own plans to ...read more