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With “Gladiator II” set to hit theaters in November, we’re exploring the history of Rome in film and television. Are “sword and sandal” epics making a comeback?

Arizona is one of the swing states that candidates are honing in on this year. 10,457 — that’s how many votes went to Joe Biden in Arizona in 2020, close enough to swing the state blue. So, of course, both of the 2024 presidential campaigns set up camp in Arizona weeks ago. Their target audience? Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

For many of us, cooking is an annoying, boring chore. But the food writer Bee Wilson says there’s a simple secret to an easier life in the kitchen, and it begins with the person who cooks.

During the 1800s, the Victorians had the natural world pretty much figured out, or so they thought. Then a 12-year-old discovered the first dinosaur tracks.

When Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was arrested in 2006 and later imprisoned, a power vacuum emerged in the polygamous sect. In time, a man named Samuel Bateman stepped up and declared himself the new prophet. He and his followers proceeded to exploit the needs of the faithful in order to satisfy their own deviant sexual desires.

History is full of white explorers “discovering” the Americas. But there are stories that flow the other way, too, of Indigenous people who also “discovered” a new land — Europe.

In January of 2023, Brigham Young University released a dire report about the Great Salt Lake. The biggest takeaway? The lake will be gone in five years. Then, a major snowfall hit the state, we had a record-breaking winter and Governor Cox called the report a joke.

Sports journalist Joe Posnanski is a diehard baseball fan, but deep down, he knows what Americans really love: football on Sundays.

In 2021, Jeffrey Holland, an apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, suggested it would be better for Brigham Young University to lose accreditation than compromise its spiritual mission. Today, BYU’s Commissioner of Education is holding professors to higher spiritual standards.

Last week, we talked about new reporting on Great Salt Lake that raised questions about the lake’s decline. The claim? Climate change, more than overuse, is to blame.