When I was in high school, a boy I had dated for a long time and I broke up, the way that high school relationships end. He decided to tell people we had sex, which we had not. A mutual friend told me what she had heard, and I responded that was not what happened. I remember vividly, as though ...

One day, just before this year's Fourth of July, I spent an hour searching through old posts in the Facebook group for my Libby (Montana) High School class of 1978. As the 250th anniversary of our country was approaching, I was feeling some nostalgia for the proud and happy celebrations of ...

Twenty-five years ago, many Americans woke up on September 12 to a country that felt different. The shock and grief were overwhelming, but so was the way people responded to one another. Strangers helped strangers, communities rallied around those who were hurting, and displays of American ...

The defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign, it can be argued, came almost exactly two years ago, on Sunday, Oct. 20, when then-former President Donald Trump traded his suit coat for a yellow apron and worked the fry station and the drive-thru window at a McDonald's. His staff ...

The state of Utah gets to be in the spotlight for sports fans this weekend as a Top 10 showdown is on tap in Provo. Since I covered sports for more than two decades, I've seen plenty of thrilling gridiron battles before and this is definitely a fun opportunity for both No. 8-ranked BYU and No. ...

The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These enormous ...