Commentary

(AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

In this June 1970 photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut, south Vietnamese Marines rush to the point where descending U.S. Army helicopter will pick them up after a sweep east of the Cambodian town of Prey-Veng during the Vietnam War.

Luciano S. Martinez: Vietnam and the draft: What was it all about?

By Luciano S. Martinez: | Special to The Tribune | March 27, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) American white pelicans gather at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, a 74,000-acre nature reserve in the northern Great Salt Lake, June 23, 2021.

Terry Tempest Williams: I am haunted by what I have seen at Great Salt Lake

By Terry Tempest Williams | For The New York Times | March 26, 2023, 6:34 p.m.

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Women from villages near Tilonia, India learn how to make solar lamps at the Barefoot College, March 20, 2023.

Nicholas D. Kristof: India leads the way with its Barefoot College

By Nicholas D. Kristof | The New York Times | March 25, 2023, 4:00 p.m.

(Doug Mills | The New York Times)

President Joe Biden meets with President Xi Jinping of China in Bali, Indonesia, Nov. 14, 2022.

David Brooks: The cold war with China is changing everything

By David Brooks | The New York Times | March 25, 2023, 3:00 p.m.

(Tomasz Woźniakowski for The New York Times)

Bill Gates: I worry we are making the same mistake again

By Bill Gates | For The New York Times | March 25, 2023, 2:00 p.m.

Utah Income Tax Form TC-40

Grover Norquist and Rusty Cannon: Removing earmark on income tax would be a win for Utah

By Grover Norquist and Rusty Cannon | Special to The Tribune | March 24, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Four of nine books that have been removed from schools in the Canyons School District and placed under review, Nov. 23, 2021. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin.

Jody Plant: Decision to ban ‘The Bluest Eye’ is outrageous and tragic

By Jody Plant | Special to The Tribune | March 25, 2023, 8:27 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Delta Air Lines signage at the baggage claim area in Salt Lake City International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022.

Bill Wyatt: Why Delta’s new extended commitment to SLC Airport is a big deal

By Bill Wyatt | Special to The Tribune | March 23, 2023, 3:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A female mountain lion after being captured by scientists in the Oquirrh Mountains in 2011.

Bob Nicholson: Cougar trapping law is a black eye for Utah

By Bob Nicholson | Special to The Tribune | March 23, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) A plane flies into the Salt Lake International airport as inversion conditions settle into the valley diminishing the air quality on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022.

Brian Moench: Your job is to tell the EPA to do its job

By Brian Moench | Special to The Tribune | March 23, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alfalfa processor Keith Bailey in a barn filled with alfalfa at Bailey Farms International in Ephraim, where bales are compressed for export to Asian dairies, on Thursday, March 2, 2023.

Paul M. Jakus: Figuring the best use for Utah’s water is not so simple

By Paul M. Jakus | Special to The Tribune | March 24, 2023, 6:53 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Abby Thornton, 9, helps put up a line of transgender flags in front of the Utah Pride Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 18, 2023, as part of Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31.

Lisa Hansen: Mental health professionals see the danger in Utah’s anti-transgender law

By Lisa Hansen | Special to The Tribune | March 22, 2023, 4:36 p.m.

(Andrew Harnik | AP photo)

This Feb. 5, 2018, photo shows the seal of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System in the ground at the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington.

Shawn Teigen: Utah in good position to weather the next recession

| March 22, 2023, 4:30 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Poor air quality obscures the Oquirrh Mountains and downtown Salt Lake City, as seen from the University of Utah on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021.

Joro Walker and Kathleen McKee: Utahns need to tell the EPA to strengthen rules on PM2.5 pollution

| March 22, 2023, 4:00 p.m.

(Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service via AP)

This Jan. 7, 2018, photo released by the National Park Service shows wolf tracks on Fountain Freight road in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo.

Gravity worked before we knew what it was, George Pyle writes. So did natural predators.

By George Pyle | March 22, 2023, 5:02 p.m.

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In this Sept.14, 2020, photo released by India Government Press Information Bureau, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media as he arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, India.

Nicholas D. Kristof: He is the world’s most popular leader. Beware.

By Nicholas D. Kristof | The New York Times | March 21, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

(Annie Flanagan | The New York Times)

A teenage girl at her home in Minnesota on Oct. 28, 2021.

David French: What if kids are sad and stressed because their parents are?

By David French | The New York Times | March 21, 2023, 4:00 p.m.

(Sam Whitney | The New York Times)

Ross Douthat: A conservative tries to define what it means to be woke

By Ross Douthat | The New York Times | March 21, 2023, 7:03 p.m.

Photo: Sequoia National Forest, image courtesy of Joe Stone

Joe Stone: When giants fall, we need to listen

By Joe Stone | Writers on the Range | March 21, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

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Lone Rock reflected in muddy waters at Wahweap Bay in Lake Powell.

Dale Maharidge: The Colorado River is running dry, but nobody wants to talk about the mud

By Dale Maharidge | For The New York Times | March 21, 2023, 4:26 p.m.