Utah
MEMBERS ONLY: Mitt Romney: A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
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
Utah's New Anti-Abortion Law Deliberately Puts Women's Lives At Risk
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
Utah Republicans Threaten To Sue Obama For The Right To Destroy Native American Lands
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
Three Utah Republicans Have Thrown Trump Under The Bus And The Entire Party Is Ready To Follow
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
America’s New Data Center Makes UK Surveillance Plans Seem Petty
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