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Cannabis activist Dennis Peron started the country’s first public dispensary in 1992—before weed was legal. We’ll talk with filmmaker Kip Andersen about what drove Peron’s activism.

If you were born in post-9/11 America, the idea of a plane getting hijacked is terrifying. But once upon a time hijackers seemed more interested in the thrill than instilling fear. And one of them even became a kind of folk hero.

If you were born in post-9/11 America, the idea of a plane getting hijacked is terrifying. But once upon a time hijackers seemed more interested in the thrill than instilling fear. And one of them even became a kind of folk hero.

In 2018, voters narrowly passed a ballot initiative, dubbed Proposition 4, to create an independent redistricting commission and redraw Utah’s voting maps. State lawmakers, though, weren’t having it. For the past six years, they’ve managed to thwart the implementation of Prop 4. But a judge’s ruling last week could force their hands and alter the balance of power in Utah’s congressional delegation.

In a recent press conference, Utah Governor Spencer Cox warned of political violence metastasizing in this country. The journalist McKay Coppins described it as a kind of sermon.

These days, you might type ideas into the Notes app. But that’s just a testament to the importance of history’s real creative titan: the humble notebook.

On September 11, 1857, a Mormon militia attacked a wagon train of California-bound emigrants. They killed more than a hundred men, women and children.

Talk about bad. Not only does the 1965-film “The Conqueror” feature John Wayne, of all people, in the leading role as Genghis Khan, but its production may have led to cancer diagnoses in the cast and crew.

Tuesday, it’s a special holiday edition of our Through the Lens series about documentary film. Humbugs may sneer, but filmmaker Mitchell Kezin is obsessed…

Rachel Rueckert was a young writer and world traveler. And she was in love, too. So, she got married. On the first night of her honeymoon, she panicked.