Lewis and Clark’s expedition is the stuff of legend. Craig Fehrman’s book highlights the people who helped make the journey possible.
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Carol Lynn Pearson passed away in July. She was a champion of women and LGBT people in the LDS Church, and we’re talking about how she changed Mormonism.
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There’s an interactive tool that’ll show you every data center operating in Utah. Its creator Alex Kellgreen calls it “The Elephant in the Desert.”
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Mary Roach’s latest book is about the science behind prosthetic limbs and lab-grown organs. But can even the best technology outshine what your body does already?
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Dolly Parton passed away on August 25th. We never got to speak with her, but we talked with someone who did: the journalist Jad Abumrad.
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It was a series of texts from his son that sent the journalist Jon Ronson down the rabbit hole of masculinity in crisis. His new book explores what he found.
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The LDS Church is suing podcaster John Dehlin over his use of the word Mormon. They say it belongs to them. But can a word like Mormon really be owned?
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New Age spirituality is everywhere these days, from tarot cards and crystals to astrology and energy healing. Leah Sottile’s book tells the story.
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The writer Caroline Crampton beat cancer. But she still didn’t feel well. Instead, she was stuck with a persistent, anxious fear that the cancer would surely return.
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These days, we take the polarization of faith in America for granted: Christians are mostly conservative, and liberals are hardly religious at all. But it wasn’t always this way.
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Few presidents’ wives have been demonized like Mary Todd Lincoln. But historian Lois Romano says the hatred for Mary says more about her detractors than about her.
Carol Lynn Pearson passed away in July. She was a champion of women and LGBT people in the LDS Church, and we’re talking about how she changed Mormonism.
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