The opinions, often expressed in tweets, came fast and furious after Twitter revealed its revised censorship policy late last month. Social-media users, who had just pushed back against...

As we enter the 2012 election season, should American Muslims be bracing for another round of Islamophobia? Certainly the 2010 elections were rife with attacks on American Muslims, seeking to deny...

In the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as prolife as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either...

Citizens United decision , and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence...

From the archive Profound changes to the global economy contributed to today's crisis and make it harder to resolve. Bergsten — director of the influential Peterson Institute for...

Facebook's IPO, or initial public offering, will lead to shareholder pressure on the firm to squeeze profits out of users' personal data. Google, too, faces more scrutiny as it mines user...

President Obama errs in pushing nuclear negotiation, writes this ex-CIA spy in Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Four US presidents tried and failed. The problem lies in Iran's fanatic ideology....

(Steve Griffin | Tribune File Photo) The Huka girls at the Huka Bar and Grill. Owner Nathan Porter said a bill that would have included hookahs under the Indoor Clean Air Act would have put him out...

The federal government has swooped down on 105 people in 23 states as part of a nationwide crackdown on identity theft and tax-refund fraud that was timed to warn cheats and potential victims to...

Associated Press file photo Under the deal, the mortgage principal for about 1 million homeowners would be written down by an average of $20,000. An additional 750,000 Americans -- about half the...

Boise, Idaho o The new CEO of Micron Technology Inc. had been planning to retire at an early age in August, before his company called on him to replace Steve Appleton, who died last week in a plane...

Delta Air Lines Inc. began reporting a key monthly revenue figure for the first time Monday, and it showed a 14.5 percent jump from a year...

Challenging Netflix, Verizon said Monday it will start a video streaming service later this year in cooperation with Redbox and its DVD rental kiosks. (AP Photo/Isaac...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah each will receive $1.75 million, FJ Management Inc. said...

Obama's re-election than Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America" Super Bowl spot featuring Clint Eastwood. There is every reason to believe that the pro-Obama theme was...

Huntsman Corp., the worldwide chemicals conglomerate based out of Salt Lake City and The Woodlands, Texas, said it has appointed Jon Huntsman Jr. to its board of...

There's little doubt how Syria's autocratic government manages to endure in a region remade by the Arab Spring push for change. Its brutal leader, Bashar Assad, leans on Russia and China to...

Utah Valley University's new Business Resource Center has named Utah Valley business leader Roger Andrus as director. In his position, he will help entrepreneurs and small businesses use the...

I have no sympathy for Robert Jones and others who are fighting red-light cameras ("Steep fines spur anger at cameras," Feb. 5). As a pedestrian, I must be constantly vigilant when...

Oakland police form a perimiter on Broadway and 23rd and begin making arrests of protesters with Occupy Oakland as they continued their march into the evening through the streets of downtown in...

FROM Penn State to Miramonte Elementary School, there's a pattern to the recent child molestation stories: Revelation of charges. Further revelation that the suspicions aren't new. Public...

Here's one thing both might agree on: More candidates should follow Ronald Reagan and have Madison Avenue -- not the Beltway -- create their campaign...

Editor, The Times: In Seattle, we teachers and the district have set in place a progressive teacher-evaluation system [';A lack of courage on education reform,'; Opinion, Feb. 5]. It...

When I was growing up, pornography was illegal — we didn’t stop it, but it was kept it out of the public eye [';Library’s right call on porn ban,'; Opinion, Feb. 5]....

I was disturbed to read the article in the Tuesday Jan. 31 edition of The Seattle Times about proposed differential-tuition rates, and the effect that it will have on families who use the GET program...

Thank you for the excellent coverage of the Komen foundation controversy. In the article ';Komen does about-face on funding cuts,'; [page one, Feb. 4], I quote Carrie Gordon Earll of Focus...

Despite worries over Iran's nuclear efforts, there is a success story to be told about the global initiative to turn megatons into megawatts, says nuclear-program consultant Edgar...

The Republican Party should not misread the broader public's quiet on abortion rights as lack of interest, writes Froma Harrop. When backers of reproductive rights think something real is...

WASHINGTON — Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman's right to contraception or...

Last week's jobs report was much better than expected and made many people more optimistic about the economy, writes Paul Krugman. But there's a real danger that this optimism will empower...

Yet no one has figured how to fix the mess. The Obama administration and several states have been working on a multibillion dollar settlement with banks that abused the foreclosure process; the deal...

Although the president still hasn't presented details of his latest plan, judging by his speech last week it's going to be more of the same. He means well, but his new plan will do nothing to help...

Doing away with tenure for public school teachers, combined with low pay and increased surveillance of performance, would add to the exodus of the best teachers from the profession. And those...

When my local United Way obtained a dot-com domain, I advised it to use the more appropriate dot-org suffix instead but to keep the dot-com to prevent someone from using it to scam people. With the...

The irony is that few worldviews better describe the general liberal orientation to public policy and the culture war. The left often complains about the culture war as if it's a war they don't want...

DeWayne Wickham USATODAY columnist The unemployment rate in January dropped to 8.3%, the fifth consecutive month that it has declined and the lowest it has been in three years. Last month, 243,000...

In the mid-1990s, there was a mini-wave of "granny dumping." Elderly people, abandoned by families, showed up at hospitals and Salvation Army facilities, often with a note to the effect:...

article about the suicides of nine LGBT teens in the Anoka-Hennepin School District and the school "neutrality" policy that served them poorly. The stretch is the story’s attempt to...

February 6, 2012 The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed its controversial decision to stop providing funding to Planned Parenthood. Rodger Jones, an editorial writer for...

On Sunday, the ruling party nominated Josefina Vazquez Mota to be the first woman candidate for president from a major Mexican party. Would she instill rule of law and sustain the fight against drug...

The same tinderbox that allowed the Chinese village of Wukan to erupt (the confiscation of farmer's land without fair compensation) is present in thousands of villages across China. The scale of...

How long can China's communist regime hold in thrall people who have prospered in an economic system that has many of the hallmarks of free enterprise? Despite attempts to censor the Internet,...

As a conservative constitutional scholar, I am deeply troubled by Newt Gingrich's vision for executive power over the courts - even if it is to strike back at liberal judges. Such a seizure of...

From the presidential campaign trail to Congress, Republicans have been hammering Obama for locking up the nation's energy resources. GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney, for one, accuses...

The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah each will receive $1.75 million, FJ Management Inc. said...

Washington, D.C. o In the nation's capital, city employees are scouring churches, libraries, and community centers to find people who have dropped out of the labor force and help them get...

WASHINGTON - In a fresh swipe at Iran, President Barack Obama has ordered new sanctions on the Islamic republic, including its Central Bank, moving to enforce a law he signed in December. In a...

The Federal Reserve's decision last month to set a soft inflation target is the latest in a series of steps the central bank has taken in recent years to improve policy transparency. It's...