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After the 2020 election, Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson opposed Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results. It made her a target. The threats were serious enough that the state put her under protection for more than two years. Today, she describes herself as a “heretic” in her own party.

The writer Betsy Gaines Quammen believes in ghosts – and if you listen to them, she says, you might just understand our troubled history better.

Voters are worried about the Great Salt Lake, angry about data centers, frustrated by high gas prices and fed up with Trump. But will any of that change the outcome of elections in Utah?

Moudi Sbeity grew up in a Muslim household in Lebanon. War returned to the country in 2006, and at 18, he was evacuated by the Navy — and came to Utah.

Valar Atomics wants to build a data center on 9,000 acres of federal land near Price and power it with 456 small nuclear reactors. They’re calling it “Project Beehive.”

Oscar winning documentary director Daniel Roher was terrified of artificial intelligence. So, he made a film to work through his anxiety. What he learned made him feel better – and also worse.

Biographer Kai Bird used to think that lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn was a bit player on the American fringe. Then Trump took office, and Bird knew he was wrong.

Josh Romney, Mitt’s son, is the president and CEO of Great Salt Lake Rising. He’s joining us to talk about saving the lake – and doing it in time for the 2034 Olympics.

That’s the claim in journalist Kate Zernike’s recent New York Times piece. We’ll speak with her and others about a complicated battle over power and gender in Utah.

Regular readers of The Salt Lake Tribune will know Eli McCann’s humor columns. Now he’s written a novel – and it’s already a New York Times bestseller.

Jesus’s mother Mary likely lived for over 40 years, but many think of her in only two places, the Nativity and the Crucifixion. Scholar James Tabor wants to change that.

There’s a mismatch between what people say about marriage and what they actually do about it. Stephanie Coontz’s book explains how we got here and where we go next.

We’ve been talking about what this year’s El Niño could mean in Utah. For the view abroad, we spoke with the journalist Joshua Partlow.

Climate forecasters are predicting one of the strongest El Niño patterns on record. That could lead to disaster around the globe. But in Utah, it’s a murkier outlook.

Carol Lynn Pearson died in July. She was a champion of women and LGBT people in the LDS Church, and we’re talking about how she changed Mormonism.

Lewis and Clark’s expedition is the stuff of legend. Craig Fehrman’s book highlights the people who helped make the journey possible.

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.”

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?

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.

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.

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?

New Age spirituality is everywhere these days, from tarot cards and crystals to astrology and energy healing. Leah Sottile’s book tells the story.

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.

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.

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.