Commentary

We are free to make our own decisions in life. We create are own destiny.

There are so many perspectives on abortion right now, it can be difficult to navigate. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and my own church’s stance is generally politically ambivalent. My own perspective tends to take a more personal, nuanced approach, which, thankfully, my faith encourages us to take with prayer and study. I am also a health communication researcher working on a PhD at Washington State University.  

Gun control legislation can’t rid society of evil. It simply acknowledges that evil exists.

No amount of what I was trying to find before — that which got me nowhere and left me cold — could ever replace the little I have that means so much to me now.

Perhaps this is part of my distress, even disgust, with the aggressive, often violent, presence of white Christian Nationalism in our culture today. I see nothing loving about this dangerous blending of patriotism and so-called Christianity.

Some of the issues raised by Presley’s life, particularly his early life, are enormously relevant today.

Yet our adolescent democratic republic remains unfinished. Despite its influence on the world stage, it struggles to live up to the potential embodied in its name