About a month late, presumably due to last fall's government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It provides an interesting picture of what the country is, and is becoming, halfway through the ...

Many people worry that acknowledging differences between girls and boys — or between women and men — will reinforce stereotypes. Yet research increasingly shows that ignoring those differences can have the very same effect. Scholars like Dr. Leonard Sax argue that overlooking sex‑based ...

Let's take a minute to do a little thought exercise. For the next couple of minutes, try to step back from the emotions and fears and political views and focus on the people. Imagine being an agent for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (commonly referred to as ICE) today. I'll ...

Measles is a "cost of doing business," says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I'd like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director's quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing business ...

Northern Utah has always been a land of contrasts: mountains and valleys, pioneers and tech bros, Cougars and Utes. But lately, the region has embraced a new identity: America’s premier climate-change laboratory, complete with a once great lake, vanishing snow, dust storms, forest fires, and ...

Vice President J.D. Vance is putting his own spin on MAGA -- Make America Grow Again. Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance recently announced that she is pregnant. Their fourth child, a boy, is due in June. Usha isn't the only woman connected to the White House who is expecting. Press Secretary ...