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How social media is widening the ideological divide in America

Studies show most people avoid reading information they disagree with by Abigail Gunderson April 10, 2022

Maci Jacobson was watching the world fall apart. With a public health crisis, intense political friction and racial violence, it seemed like...

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Ordinary Equality: The fight for the Equal Rights Amendment

A look into the nearly century-long fight to secure women's rights in the U.S. Constitution by Emma Keddington March 25, 2022

In 1923, Alice Paul, a woman who had given her all to the suffragist movement and who was well-versed in the cause...

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Will capital punishment get the kiss of death?

A closer look at Utah’s death penalty by Amy Griffin December 2, 2021

Forty years ago this April, Brenda Wright Lafferty walked across the stage at her graduation from Brigham Young University to receive her...

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Three murders, one gun

Families and former police search for answers 30 years after the murders of three young women, the disappearance of the gun that could connect them and an allegedly botched and politically charged investigation. by Sydnee Gonzalez June 12, 2020

When Leah Gallegos walked into her Salt Lake City workplace on the morning of May 16, 1985, her coworkers were talking about...

Utah’s precinct caucuses: The good, the bad and the ugly

by Jefferson Jarvis June 17, 2019

Mark Stoddard has had enough. After years of passionate political involvement, in positions that range from executive director of a grassroots political...