Perspective: 7 signs your counselor may be undermining your faith: Good counseling can do tremendous good, but even the best mental health professional is not neutral toward religion and spirituality

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2026/08/18/supporting-faith-in-counseling/

The rise of the prenup and how it’s associated with divorce: It’s getting easier to get a prenuptial agreement, which makes it easier to leave a marriage

https://www.deseret.com/family/2026/08/13/prenup-divorce-probability-marriage/

Why I Quit the Tenure Track: The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/

You Might Be a Late Bloomer: The life secrets of those who flailed early but succeeded by old age

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/successs-late-bloomers-motivation/678798/

The Hard Truth About the Sanctuary Movement

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/the-hard-truth-about-the-sanctuary-movement/

The Mental Health Case for Religion: The strongest mental health research connects sustained religious participation with healthier coping and well-being.

https://publicsquaremag.org/health/mental-health/the-mental-health-case-for-religion/

Return-to-Office Mandates are Triggering a New Era of Workplace Sabotage: 72% of workers suspect RTO is a stealth layoff—here’s how they’re weaponizing their presence.

https://enhancv.com/blog/rto-stealth-layoffs/

Can your ISP see what you do? Yes, in more ways than you think

https://proton.me/blog/how-isps-track-you

It’s Not the AI. It’s the Lawyer: We Don’t Have a Hallucination Problem, We Have a Serious Ethics Problem

https://www.ailawlibrarians.com/2026/06/30/its-not-the-ai-its-the-lawyer-we-dont-have-a-hallucination-problem-we-have-a-serious-ethics-problem/

Boys are falling behind in school. What would help?: Bestselling parenting author said schools must do more to engage boys; start by recognizing gender differences

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2026/07/29/author-boys-school-gender-instruction/

Half of Students Now Get A’s, but Actual Achievement Is Declining: Your child’s report card may be sending the wrong signal. Grades and GPAs increasingly reflect institutional incentives rather than academic achievement.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/half-of-students-now-get-as-but-actual-achievement-is-declining-6066451

15 Signs Of Passive-Aggressive Behavior With Examples

https://www.simplypsychology.org/passive-aggressive-behavior.html

First the fires, then the floods: Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz described the worsening issue of wildfires to the Deseret News

https://www.deseret.com/environment/2026/07/20/permitting-litigation-making-american-forests-unhealthy/

Opinion: The Amazonian trap: Heteropessimism is tempting young women away from love and marriage. Here are 3 steps to escape that trap

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/07/19/heteropessimism-young-women-amazons-marriage/

'Can’t Buy Me Love': Materialism and Marriage

https://ifstudies.org/blog/cant-buy-me-love-materialism-and-marriage

Why A Belief Crisis Need Never Be Fatal To Faith: Does a review of historical and scientific evidence compel faith crises today? Only if you limit your review to critical scholars, wholly ignoring the robust explanations of faithful scholars.

https://publicsquaremag.org/faith/gospel-fare/why-a-belief-crisis-need-never-be-fatal-to-faith/

Opinion: The link between declining faith and falling marriage rates in America: Over the same decades that marriage and birth rates have dropped, religious participation has fallen, too

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/07/11/a-family-policy-no-subsidy-can-buy/

Is America’s penchant for talk therapy making us better off or worse?: Jonathan Alpert takes on his own profession in the new book ‘Therapy Nation.’ He’s not without critics

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2026/07/11/therapy-nation-jonathan-halpert-how-to-find-a-therapist/

Analysis: The red-blue illusion — American voters are far more complex than their parties: Americans agree with each other most of the time, according to new research. Our politics just hide it

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/07/12/the-red-blue-illusion-americans-agree-on-politics/

Opinion: Small traditions make us better participants in society: Phones create perfect records; traditions create participants

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/07/08/sam-abrams-keeping-score/

The Magic of a Little Danger: To get happier, be brave, not reckless.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/07/how-to-take-smart-risks/661487/

The End of Reading Is Here: Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/

For Years We Searched for Alzheimer’s in the Brain. Now, Researchers Suggest It May Begin Elsewhere: A large-scale genetic study suggests some of the processes driving Alzheimer’s disease may begin in the lungs, gut, and blood, years before reaching the brain.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/for-years-we-searched-for-alzheimers-in-the-brain-now-researchers-suggest-it-may-begin-elsewhere-6050552

The 9 a.m. Rule That Can Help Keep Your Home Cool Naturally This Summer: Also known as the “caveman method,” this old-school cooling trick can help keep heat out of your home before temperatures climb.

https://www.countryliving.com/home-maintenance/a71771546/cool-home-naturally-caveman-method/

What Happens When Parents Say “I Was Wrong”: Accountability matters in family relationships. Here's what research says about getting it right.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_happens_when_parents_say_i_was_wrong

I married 468 couples before I turned 21. Most of them I never met in person: A part-time job at the Utah County clerk’s office led me to officiate weddings, most virtual

https://www.deseret.com/family/2026/07/05/utah-county-marriage-license-officiant-deputy-clerk-online-weddings/

Religious freedom undergirds the very existence of America: President Dallin H. Oaks on the First Amendment, moral absolutes and why the Constitution was made for a religious people

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2026/07/04/dallin-oaks-on-religious-liberty/

From segregation to liberation, Black Americans march on: Rooted in the Bible and the Constitution, the founding dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel charts a path from darkness to dawn

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2026/07/03/black-americans-march-toward-equality/

An American Mosaic (Interactive Ancestry Map)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/07/01/us/america-ancestry-census-data-map.html

A U.S.-Mexico Partnership Beat Screwworms Once. Why Are They Back?: An international effort was so successful at eradicating the flesh-eating pests that leaders saw no reason to keep it going.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/new-world-screwworm-texas-comexa/

Opinion: Can churches renew the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’? Building a movement to fix the American family: 250 years ago, Thomas Jefferson enshrined ‘the pursuit of Happiness’ in the Declaration of Independence. But today, the news is grim on the happiness front

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/06/28/can-churches-renew-the-pursuit-of-happiness/

How Religious Freedom Takes Root: True religious freedom asks more of believers than slogans, flags, or partisan reflexes.

https://publicsquaremag.org/politics-law/religious-freedom/how-religious-freedom-takes-root/

The thinking style that makes people vulnerable to extremism

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-thinking-style-that-makes-people-vulnerable-to-extremism

Opinion: The question my son wouldn’t drop — Why do some people receive privileges that others never will?: A society depends on people who carry authority, responsibility, expertise and care. The trouble is how easily importance gets confused with worth

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/06/22/why-are-some-people-more-important-than-others/

I Spent a Week As My Friend’s Facelift Nurse. Here’s What No One Tells You: Even hours of FaceliftTok couldn't prepare me for 400 stitches, 30 staples, pounds of ice, and a little spiraling (mostly from the patient).

https://www.allure.com/story/post-facelift-recovery-process

80 Years Ago, Parachuting Beavers Helped Save America’s Wilderness. Today, They’re Furry Legends: Elmo W. Heter had a problem: beavers were dying during overland relocations. His solution? Custom crates, surplus parachutes, and a very patient test beaver.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71613267/parachute-beavers/

Analysis: It does take a village. But it also takes a father: Utah has America’s strongest community safety net. The data shows a father is still irreplaceable

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/06/19/why-fathers-are-important/

The positive story about religion that is ‘hardly ever told’: At a BYU religious freedom conference, a nonreligious researcher and a distinguished law professor arrived at the same conclusion about religion’s role in the pursuit of happiness

https://www.deseret.com/faith/2026/06/18/religion-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness-byu-religious-freedom-annual-review-2026/

The failure of the elites: How America’s ruling class lost the country it leads

https://www.deseret.com/magazine/2026/06/11/oren-cass-elites-fail-the-middle-class/

Opinion: Moving from a deficit-oriented to a data-driven perspective on Latter-day Saints: A BYU Studies report collects data from Harvard, the Pew Research Center and others to share a more complete picture of Latter-day Saint faith, well-being and retention

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/06/05/from-deficit-oriented-to-data-driven-latter-day-saint-public-discourse/

7 ways being religious can improve your health: Being religious will improve your physical and mental health, a new study found

https://www.deseret.com/lifestyle/2026/06/04/religion-improves-health-outcomes-study-byu/

There’s a Good Chance Your Gluten Sensitivity Isn’t Gluten: A review of years of research suggests non-celiac gluten sensitivity could be a form of irritable bowel syndrome.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/theres-a-good-chance-your-gluten-sensitivity-isnt-gluten-5936652

How Turkey Hacked the Hair-Transplant Industry: From specialized motors to the use of machine-learning algorithms, Turkey’s billion-dollar hair-transplant industry is the result of a constant process of innovation.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-turkey-hacked-the-hair-transplant-industry/

Opinion: Abraham Lincoln and the lost art of persuasion: When we give up on the idea that the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens can be moved by our best argument, we let go of something precious to our democracy

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/05/26/abraham-lincoln-and-lost-art-of-persuasion/

Opinion: Offering a better ‘yes’ to sexual and gender minorities: For sexual and gender minorities to thrive in our faith communities, it is crucial to focus on what we are living for rather than what we are avoiding

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/05/28/sexual-and-gender-minorities-faith-messages/

Getting Bombarded With Spam Calls From Different Numbers? Here Are 8 Ways To Stop Them: Unclog your voicemail inbox and reduce those pesky scam calls once and for all with this sound advice. By

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spam-calls-tips-stop_l_69e7b725e4b0ff46b411cced?

Why isn’t dental health considered primary medical care?: Ailments of the mouth can put the body at risk for a slew of other ills. Some practitioners think dentistry should no longer be siloed.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/why-isnt-dental-health-considered-primary-medical-care

Inside the Interstitium

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/11/magazine/interstitium-anatomy-acupuncture-medicine.html

Opinion: Who is to blame for the decline in ‘marriageable’ men?: We’re seeing a breakdown of norms and institutions that used to usher boys into manhood

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/05/15/marriageable-men-dating-sex-commitment/

The Tree With Matchmaking Powers: For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/the-postman-at-the-bridegrooms-oak/591892/

My Role as a ‘Complicit’ Journalist: Algorithms turn nuanced articles into rage bait that helps fuel political violence.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/whcd-journalism-political-violence-algorithms/687040/

California Wealth Tax Proposal Achieves a New Feat in Tax Policy: Losing the State Money Before It Even Becomes Law

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/california-wealth-tax-proposal-achieves-a-new-feat-in-tax-policy-losing-the-state-money-before-it-even-becomes-law

We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup: Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/roundup-glyphosate-spraying-forests-monsanto-science-retraction-cancer-health-concerns-maha-trump-executive-order-supreme-court-bayer-lawsuits/

Opinion: Our tech lords have plans for us, and they’re chilling: A 22-point manifesto from Palantir Technologies reveals thinking that should alarm all Americans

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/04/26/alex-karp-manifesto-palantir-ai-tech-lords/

Five Common Mistakes People Make When Checking for Ticks

https://lifehacker.com/five-common-mistakes-when-checking-for-ticks

When Language Loses Its Moral Weight If the terms we use to identify injury are loosened from their moorings, our capacity for judgment is weakened.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/when-language-loses-its-moral-weight-6011829

Opinion: Science is recognizing the protective effects of religion: A new study suggests that religion and spirituality could be a component in preventing and recovering from addiction

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/04/11/spirituality-religion-addiction-recovery-study/

States Are Learning the Wrong Lesson From the ‘Mississippi Miracle’: A phonics-based curriculum is only one part of how Mississippi went from worst to first in education. The other part is much harder to pull off.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/mississippi-education-miracle/686731/

Help wanted: Too many men aren’t working, and it’s affecting all of us: When men flounder, they don’t suffer alone. The wreckage is shared

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/03/26/young-men-unemployment-demoralization-breadwinners/

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy: Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/

Getting at the Roots of Sexual Violence Against Women: Research shows sexual violence is more likely where women are isolated, unsupported, undereducated, unmarried, and surrounded by addiction.

https://publicsquaremag.org/sexuality-family/sexual-abuse/getting-at-the-roots-of-sexual-violence-against-women/

No Pills or Needles, Just Paper: How Deadly Drugs Are Changing Lab-made drugs soaked into the pages of letters, books and even legal documents are being smuggled behind bars, killing inmates and frustrating investigators.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/world/deadly-drugs-paper.html

When Being Raped Is The Best Line In Your Resume

https://anncoulter.com/2026/03/11/when-being-raped-is-the-best-line-in-your-resume/

The Unraveling of MomTok: Discarded boundaries do not produce freedom when children, marriage, and human dignity are treated as content.

https://publicsquaremag.org/media-education/pop-culture/the-unraveling-of-momtok/

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why

This article is from Al Jazeera.

The Marriage Effect" A common narrative has it that commitment and motherhood make women unhappy. New data suggest the opposite is true.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/marriage-motherhood-happiness-children/684064/

What Will Happen When All the Male Therapists Are Gone? Psychology is increasingly a female-dominated profession. That may have implications for boys and men.

https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/male-therapists-psychology-representation-a1650f62

Sucker: My year as a degenerate gambler

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/online-sports-betting-app-addiction/686061/

How Gambling Ate the World: In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.

https://newrepublic.com/article/207374/gambling-sports-news-united-states

"There is something fundamentally anti-human about the transformation of every victory and every misfortune, every event, incident, outcome, opinion, intention, or accident into an occasion for a wager. How can we govern ourselves—and I mean this in both the political and the old-fashioned, personal sense—if we replace conscience and consciousness with nothing more than a guess? Whether a person or a society, those that take as a guiding attitude that they have nothing to lose will soon discover that it’s become literally true."

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

https://thehustle.co/originals/how-big-diaper-absorbs-billions-of-extra-dollars-from-american-parents

Opinion: A turning point for the Middle East: Resist the temptation to oppose anything associated with Trump. Iranians around the world rejoice to not be standing alone anymore

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2026/02/28/middle-east-turning-point/

How Not to Be Bored When You Have to Wait: Sick of standing in line? Instead of looking at your phone, read on. By Arthur C. Brooks

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/waiting-boredom-frustration-strategies/677767/

(Women's Clothing Sizes)

https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/

The Quiet Cost of Profanity

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/the-quiet-cost-of-profanity/

Mamdani Will Need to Change How He Governs

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opinion/democrats-public-sector-unions.html