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The now Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Trump in the second impeachment trial, putting our democracy at risk. Photo credit: Aubree Eckhardt

Loyalty over democracy: the cowardice of the Republican Party

Rebecca Gonzales February 24, 2021

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends,” George Washington said in his farewell address, given Sept. 17, 1796, “they are likely in the course of time and things to...

Dr. Carsten Stark speaks at Lindquist Hall (Robert Lewis / The Signpost)

Divided democracy and its dysfunction

Francisco Ruiz October 16, 2019

Dr. Carsten Stark, a visiting professor from Hof University in Germany, provided an analysis about the increasing polarization of political dialogue in the U.S. and the world as part of WSU's Sociology...

Marek Matyjasik researches chemical reactions with water and mineral surfaces. He has received the Fulbright Scholarship to go to Poland and teach geology. (Press release from weber.edu on March 21)

From the ground up: WSU professor attains international acclaim

Nic Muranaka March 29, 2019

Matt - e - yah - shick. That's how you pronounce Dr. Marek Matyjasik's last name, the first skill students at Warsaw University will have to practice when he travels there early next year as Weber State...

Mayor Brent Taylor in uniform, the icon for his facebook page. (Facebook)

Ogden mayor killed in Afghanistan

Hillary Reilly November 8, 2018

North Ogden mayor and Utah National Guard Maj. Brent Taylor was killed in Afghanistan on Nov. 3.Taylor was a husband and father to seven children on his fourth deployment, this time to Afghanistan. His...

When rights collide, equality must win

February 4, 2015

With the United States anticipating the Supreme Court's expected June announcement on same-sex marriage, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has chosen to take a stance supporting anti-discrimination...

Viewpoint: The spies move next door

March 22, 2012

The National Security Agency’s construction of a massive, 1 million square-foot “spy center” is currently under way in the Utah desert. According to the April issue of Wired magazine, it is “the...

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