Utah

The Spiral Jetty Reemerges

Arts, Culture & Media

Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork the Spiral Jetty usually lies beneath ten feet of water in the Great Salt Lake. This summer, a drought in Utah lowered water levels in the lake, and the jetty reemerged for the first time since the mid-nineties. Producer Eric Fredericksen looks into the history and possible fate of the Spiral […]

Spiral Jetty

Arts, Culture & Media

Sun Tunnels

Arts, Culture & Media
screenshots of two advertisements of Facebook posts by John Curtis

Utah congressional candidate says Facebook ad to ‘build the wall’ was made in error

Global Politics
Close-up of face of man asleep on sofa with infant child next to him, wrapped in blanket

2,800 miles and 26 years later, a new dad looks for his own father in Guatemala

Lifestyle
Sharlee Mullins Glenn speaks to demonstrators outside the Office of Homeland Security in West Valley City, Utah in May.

Trump’s policies have turned some Mormon women in Utah into political activists

Global Politics

It started as a private Facebook group of a few Mormon women in Utah, upset about the Trump administration’s travel ban on immigrants. In a matter of weeks, Mormon Women for Ethical Government went national.

A Friday night "Meet the Muslims" session at the Utah Islamic Center in Sandy, Utah. Members of the center started them after the election of Donald Trump.

Some Utah Muslims feel let down by Mormon neighbors who voted for Trump

Election 2016

Mormons in Utah have their own history of religious persecution. But then the state went for Trump, who had proposed faith-based immigration bans. Muslims there are wondering what to make of that.