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/