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There’s a common critique in anti-LGBT spaces: Animals aren’t gay, they don’t change gender so neither should you. The documentary “Second Nature” says, not so fast.

The votes are in, or most of them are, and Utah’s political map may look a little different this morning. Or it may not. Either way, we’re sorting through what happened, and what it means.

In 1973, moviegoers were seen fleeing from theaters. Some fainted; others threw up. That was the year that “The Exorcist” was released.

After the 2020 election, Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson opposed Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results. It made her a target. The threats were serious enough that the state put her under protection for more than two years. Today, she describes herself as a “heretic” in her own party.

The writer Betsy Gaines Quammen believes in ghosts – and if you listen to them, she says, you might just understand our troubled history better.

Voters are worried about the Great Salt Lake, angry about data centers, frustrated by high gas prices and fed up with Trump. But will any of that change the outcome of elections in Utah?

Moudi Sbeity grew up in a Muslim household in Lebanon. War returned to the country in 2006, and at 18, he was evacuated by the Navy — and came to Utah.

Valar Atomics wants to build a data center on 9,000 acres of federal land near Price and power it with 456 small nuclear reactors. They’re calling it “Project Beehive.”

Oscar winning documentary director Daniel Roher was terrified of artificial intelligence. So, he made a film to work through his anxiety. What he learned made him feel better – and also worse.

Biographer Kai Bird used to think that lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn was a bit player on the American fringe. Then Trump took office, and Bird knew he was wrong.

Josh Romney, Mitt’s son, is the president and CEO of Great Salt Lake Rising. He’s joining us to talk about saving the lake – and doing it in time for the 2034 Olympics.

That’s the claim in journalist Kate Zernike’s recent New York Times piece. We’ll speak with her and others about a complicated battle over power and gender in Utah.

Regular readers of The Salt Lake Tribune will know Eli McCann’s humor columns. Now he’s written a novel – and it’s already a New York Times bestseller.

Jesus’s mother Mary likely lived for over 40 years, but many think of her in only two places, the Nativity and the Crucifixion. Scholar James Tabor wants to change that.

There’s a mismatch between what people say about marriage and what they actually do about it. Stephanie Coontz’s book explains how we got here and where we go next.