John Curtis took his place in the United State Senate on January 3 of this year. He’s joining us to talk about his life in politics and his vision for Utah and the nation.

With the new year comes a new legislative session — and a new tone.

The Netflix mini-series “American Primeval” depicts the Utah War with extreme brutality. It’s also raising questions about historical accuracy.

Sports journalist Joe Posnanski is a diehard baseball fan, but deep down, he knows what Americans really love: football on Sundays.

In 2021, Jeffrey Holland, an apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, suggested it would be better for Brigham Young University to lose accreditation than compromise its spiritual mission. Today, BYU’s Commissioner of Education is holding professors to higher spiritual standards.

Last week, we talked about new reporting on Great Salt Lake that raised questions about the lake’s decline. The claim? Climate change, more than overuse, is to blame.

History is full of white explorers “discovering” the Americas. But there are stories that flow the other way, too, of Indigenous people who also “discovered” a new land — Europe.

In January of 2023, Brigham Young University released a dire report about the Great Salt Lake. The biggest takeaway? The lake will be gone in five years. Then, a major snowfall hit the state, we had a record-breaking winter and Governor Cox called the report a joke.

If you’ve ever wanted to share a room with two great actors talking about Shakespeare, here’s your chance — with Dame Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea.

Time is limited. And life is short. So why, asks the writer Oliver Burkeman, do we waste so much of it trying to get on top of things before we can focus on the really meaningful parts of life?

Norman Maclean became a literary star after publishing his largely autobiographical novella, “A River Runs Through It.” A new book recounts his lifelong efforts to reconcile the different parts of himself.

You know that feeling you get when you see something so incredible that it transcends understanding? That’s awe. But, really, what is awe?

In 2021, protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol and tried to overturn the presidential election. In that moment, author Charles King turned to Handel’s Messiah.

When Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was arrested in 2006 and later imprisoned, a power vacuum emerged in the polygamous sect. In time, a man named Samuel Bateman stepped up and declared himself the new prophet. He and his followers proceeded to exploit the needs of the faithful in …

This week we’re revisiting two of our favorite conversations from 2024, asking questions about life on the Red Planet and animals that inspire awe.

Talk about bad. Not only does the 1965-film “The Conqueror” feature John Wayne, of all people, in the leading role as Genghis Khan, but its production may have led to cancer diagnoses in the cast and crew.

In 2021, unmarked graves were discovered at several residential boarding schools in Canada. Then the investigations began.