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Deseret Magazine’s list of 50 ideas changing philanthropy
Last year, we debuted our first Philanthropy Issue and something we called the Deseret 50. The idea was to celebrate the 50 people, organizations and ideas transforming the world of giving. This year, we’re bringing back both the Philanthropy Issue and the Deseret 50. This year’s list highlights 50 initiatives changing how we think about giving itself. I’ve learned a couple things about giving in the two years we’ve built this list, some counterintuitive, at least to me.
Biohacking raises new questions about how we age
Biohacking ranges from sleep tracking and supplements to more aggressive efforts to improve performance, health and longevity. Supporters argue that better data and new tools can help people take greater control of their health. Critics warn that constant optimization can become costly, obsessive and disconnected from what actually makes life better. Every passing year, the inner workings of our bodies become more legible, and we are offered new and better technologies to care for them.
Deseret Magazine’s list of 50 ideas changing philanthropy
Last year, we debuted our first Philanthropy Issue and something we called the Deseret 50. The idea was to celebrate the 50 people, organizations and ideas transforming the world of giving. This year, we’re bringing back both the Philanthropy Issue and the Deseret 50. This year’s list highlights 50 initiatives changing how we think about giving itself. I’ve learned a couple things about giving in the two years we’ve built this list, some counterintuitive, at least to me.
As students embrace AI, universities scramble to keep up
Inside a classroom at a California State University campus in Vallejo, six whiteboards line three walls, all covered in dry-erase markers. Four students cluster at each board, working through differential equations. No laptops or phones are visible. Taiyo Inoue walks through the room, hands clasped behind his back, watching each group in turn. He is an intense presence, with piercing brown eyes and graying stubble. His face is often fixed in a perpetual frown, his brows furrowed as if in confusion.
Students have embraced AI. Universities are scrambling to catch up
Loans 9 hours ago Education Department just rattled student loan borrowers TheStreet - Damilola Esebame • 9h The rules around PSLF payments are shifting, and the details are getting harder to pin down.
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A 2024 police shooting on a southern Idaho reservation reveals how officers often operate with fewer resources and less accountability.
The fight over what conservatism means Original
A warm, gusty wind was whipping through Washington that morning, rattling the bare branches along Massachusetts Avenue and sending scraps of paper skittering down the sidewalks. The National Weather Service had issued a red-flag warning — gusts up to 45 miles an hour in air so dry that any spark could run. The sky had that washed-out autumn glare that makes the city feel brittle. Inside the Heritage Foundation’s headquarters, the air felt just as charged.
A terminal calculus Original
In October 2022, the Canadian department store chain La Maison Simons released an ad as part of a new national brand campaign. In the ad, a woman walks barefoot along a beach, tracing circles in the sand, moving through candlelit forests and a dreamlike gathering of friends, framed by dancers and soft light. Her voiceover is calm, reflective, resolved.
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Transportation, agriculture, energy production, geography — all these factors drive Bakersfield's air pollution. What does it mean for locals?
Democrats face identity crisis after years of losing touch with voters Original
At a Brooklyn street festival in August, Zohran Mamdani failed to bench-press 135 pounds. Why he was even subjecting himself to such a stunt is a good question. Call it a sign of the times. The likely next mayor of New York — a trim 34-year-old socialist who wants to freeze rents and open government-run grocery stores — grimaced through two attempts, the bar quivering inches above his chest before a spotter stepped in. The optics were brutal, as was the ridicule.
The rise and fall of DEI Original
When Freeman Hrabowski hears "diversity, equity and inclusion," he sees Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist who played a key role in developing the Covid-19 vaccines. Corbett is an alum of a scholarship program Hrabowski built to mentor underrepresented minorities into STEM careers.
Parental instincts
I answered the phone at 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001. On the line was Jane Huerta, a close friend who lived next door in our apartment complex. “They’re gone,” she said. Sometime later on that wrenching September morning, I apparently wandered out into the courtyard. I say “apparently” because I actually remember nothing from the remainder of that day. But in writing this article, I spoke with several courtyard friends, including Inji El Ghannam and her husband, Shams ElDin Tantawy.
The rising alarm about the dangers of legalized marijuana
Miriam was vomiting uncontrollably on a summer morning in 2022 when she arrived at a Utah hospital. She was diagnosed with a condition she had never heard of. This was her third ER trip with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) in as many years. The first time she vomited for 12 hours, the second for 36 hours. This time, the worst and last, the intense pain lasted five days, during which, she was later told, she had hallucinatory conversations and threatened to leap from a fourth story window.
Up in smoke
Miriam was vomiting uncontrollably on a summer morning in 2022 when she arrived at a Utah hospital. She was diagnosed with a condition she had never heard of. This was her third ER trip with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) in as many years. The first time she vomited for 12 hours, the second for 36 hours. This time, the worst and last, the intense pain lasted five days, during which, she was later told, she had hallucinatory conversations and threatened to leap from a fourth story window.
Gen Z’s gender paradox
James Steinberg for the Deseret News For high school guidance counselor Jessica Grosland, it’s a familiar tale of two siblings. The same parents, same resources, same neighborhoods. But markedly different outlooks and prospects. “The sister sits up straight in the chair. She knows she’s got to be organized, and she has a plan for the future.
An uncertain future Original
Not long ago, Sweden was the poster child for having children. Delegations from other nations that were struggling to sustain their birth rates flocked to Stockholm to pick the brains of local demographers and family policy experts. As recently as 2010, Sweden's total fertility rate (the estimated number of children a woman has in childbearing years) stood at 1.98, very close to the replacement rate of 2.1. But then fertility began tumbling year on year, now at a current low of 1.45.
Should a religious charter school get public funding?
Earlier this summer, Oklahoma approved what would be the nation's first religious charter school. The decision immediately was challenged by a lawsuit from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and in late October, Oklahoma's attorney general also filed a suit to stop the school from opening. The case may end up at the Supreme Court. If it does, it may become another in a line of recent cases that are reshaping assumptions about religious schools and public funding.
Dying with disease rather than from it Original
I'm sitting with my 88-year-old dad in his tiny room in the dementia ward of a care center. We're watching an Italian documentary about a fisherman and his dog who work in freezing weather on Lake Como. "What a lousy job," Dad says. He's reading the subtitles. The fisherman wants his son to follow in his career. "Why would he do that?" Dad snorts. The fishermen and scientists puzzle about why fish are disappearing from the lake. "Well ... you're fishing," Dad says, with a bemused smile.
The new fight against pornography
This story begins with a warning. It describes a court case involving stomach-churning details about what may be America's darkest and most depraved industry. The reader will encounter scripts of sexual behavior that millions of teens on smartphones now view as routine, but which many readers will find shocking and very unsettling. The reader who chooses to read on may well find that the benefits justify the costs. However ugly the wound, the best disinfectant in such a case is usually sunlight.
September 2026 - Deseret News
A young welder makes the case for — and against — the movement reshaping American education.
Rethinking the alleged health benefits of alcohol
If you’ve been following medical research news and look to the or Harvard School of Public Health for advice on alcohol use, you might get a mild whiplash. While neither website outright “encourages” moderate alcohol use, both come pretty close.
Rethinking the alleged health benefits of alcohol
13 hours ago The pandemic made a long-simmering problem in hospitals impossible to ignore: We desperately depend on nurses to deliver quality health care, but the American health system does not properly value the work that they do — in the most literal sense. Most US hospitals run under a fee-for-service …
2020 election: What is the truth about election integrity and stop the steal?
Bedfellows don’t get much stranger than one afternoon in Sacramento, when an ultraconservative congressman huddled with one of California’s top Democrat powerbrokers to save gerrymandering in the golden state. It was an amber September day — after the summer scorch but before the winter fog. It was a day to be outside. But there I sat in a lobbyist’s office on L Street, overlooking the California State Capitol. My first job out of college, I was press secretary for Rep.
Don’t look now, but deep in your eyelids you likely have tiny mites called demodex. Don’t worry, they (probably) won’t hurt you. They’re usually benign and sometimes even beneficial, says Keyur Savla, a Ph.D. candidate in vision science at the University of Alabama, as they can perform dead-cell cleanup. But these microscopic creatures also cause serious irritation and infections if they proliferate, which is more common among immune-compromised patients.
7 surprising graphics about Trump voters
Hillary Clinton this week threw fresh fuel on the fire of post-election speculation about why Trump won the 2016 election, pointing to an array of causes ranging from Russian interference and former FBI director Jim Comey's statements about her email server to Democratic National Committee fecklessness and the editorial decisions of the New York Times. Clinton's litany of reasons struck some as sour grapes.
Why getting a 4-year degree at a community college may be the best pathway to a good-paying job
Students who want a low-debt, high-paying job with the advancement opportunities that come with a four-year degree may soon not need look beyond their local community college. Getting a degree matters. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, half of those born into poverty who do not earn a college degree will remain in poverty, while 90 percent of those who do get a degree will escape it.
Q&A: The anatomy of trust in family, business and community
Joel Peterson is currently chairman of Jet Blue and has been a board chairman and a leading private equity investor for major corporations over the past 40 years. One key distinction the 69-year-old executive says he's learned through close observation of businesses that work and those that fail is that the former develop "high trust cultures" that work smoothly with less bureaucracy, legalism and friction.
Wells Fargo touches nerve with ad campaign pitting science against the arts
Wells Fargo has apologized after taking flak for an advertisement that suggested students would be more "ready for tomorrow" if they pursued botany or engineering rather than ballet or acting, the Daily Mail reports. The pushback, fast and impassioned, included a flurry of tweets from successful actors.
'Hillbilly Elegy' sheds light on poverty, educational blind alleys - and pathways out
It's possible no book could have been better timed to explain the rise of Donald Trump than "Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance, a national best-seller that narrates the author's adrift upbringing in Middletown, Ohio. One of the key features of the youthful Vance's milieu is the lack of educational ambition and achievement. In a book excerpt published in National Review, Vance points to that educational vacuum.
Collapse of for-profit giant ITT Tech leaves high school students in the lurch, too.
Just as classes were about to start earlier this month, the widely advertised ITT Tech, a for-profit technical college, left 35,000 college students at 127 campuses scrambling for new plans after it announced it was closing down under pressure from the Department of Education. The sudden announcement came after the Department of Education forbade the company from enrolling students using federal financial aid because it had "significant concerns" about the company's financial stability.
50 years after landmark study, education gaps remain large
Every Saturday morning, a crowd of adults — some alone, others with toddlers in tow — squeeze into a classroom in the heart of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood to study better parenting at Baby College. In the nine-week free program, new parents learn about their child's brain and how to develop it. They learn how to read to young children, talk to a child who is too young to answer, provide balanced nutrition and offer loving discipline without anger.
Q&A: Could less school and fewer tests be the key to better scores?
Timothy Walker is an American school teacher who suffered a nervous breakdown teaching in Massachusetts before finding peace of mind and career satisfaction teaching second-graders in his wife’s homeland of Finland. “I had no life outside of my work,” Walker says of the days leading up to his mental crisis.
Understanding Trump voters may be key to rebuilding GOP after divisive election
The edge of steep cliffs pinched against a unruly river is an odd place to build a town. But that's where you'll find Grundy, Virginia, sharing its precarious foothold with a railroad track and two state highways. The picturesque mountains mask a hard life. Household income is less than half the state median, population is steadily declining, and fewer than 10 percent of residents have college degrees, compared to over 30 percent statewide. Coal, the only viable industry, is in free fall.
One year after launch, a new character-based rehab program is thriving
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s a frigid 20 degrees outside the historic Armstrong Mansion in downtown Salt Lake City. In the entry hall, three young women take off their overcoats, greeting visitors coming in behind them with friendly humor and confidence.
How college admissions are distorting the character of high school students
Ashley Gore is poised to graduate from high school with a 4.6 grade point average. She’s taken multiple advancement placement classes, ranks sixth in her class, and has some pretty nice SAT scores. But the senior at Poly High School in Riverside, California, has two B’s, which bug her. And she has only two service projects to put on her college applications, when most applications have room for 10. And she’s well aware that she weakened her GPA by doing newspaper for four years.
High principal turnover leaves schools adrift
One quarter of school principals leave their jobs every year. Half of new principals quit during their third year, and the highest principal turnover is in high-poverty schools.
Like father like child: why your future may be closely tied to your father's income and education
joshuaraineyphotography, Getty Images/iStockphoto 41 percent of kids whose father had top-level education stay there, and 36 percent of those who start in the bottom income bracket will remain there. A child’s odds of breaking out of poverty or gaining a college education are heavily shaped by the father’s income and education level, says Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution.
Kaine, Pence close debate with statements of personal faith and duel on social issues
David Goldman, AP Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine, left, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence answers a question during the vice-presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., on Oct. 4, 2016. For the past few months one thing has been noticeably absent from the U.S. presidential campaign: faith.
Testing backlash: Students and parents chafe at explosion of standardized tests
When Ethan Rediske was on his deathbed in January of 2014, the state of Florida wanted him to take a standardized exam. A severely disabled 11-year-old, Ethan was blind and mostly deaf. He had never talked or walked and was fed through a tube. In his final weeks, his special-needs teacher, who had become attached to him and he to her, came to his home to work with him, read to him, and lift his spirits.
How a historic property became a haven for drug addicts
SALT LAKE CITY — Ed Larrabee will never forget the freezing morning of Dec. 20, 2013, when he poked his head into an abandoned apartment he manages in Salt Lake City and saw a body on the ground. He thought the guy was asleep. The aging apartment complex, built in 1923, had been shuttered a few weeks earlier because it produced little revenue and was too expensive to properly maintain.
Is Utah still a model for solving chronic homelessness?
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-day series on homelessness, the issues that are keeping people living on the streets of Salt Lake City, and what can be done to help. SALT LAKE CITY — Bare, frostbitten toes on size 14½ feet stand out in a crowd. These ones are scabrous and peeling, whitish and bluish with one entirely black and clearly gangrenous.
See why Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts left one person's stomach 'in knots'
Carolyn Kaster, AP President Donald Trump speaks at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va., Monday, July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump's speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia on Monday raised eyebrows and more than a few hackles. For 80 years, presidents have been invited to address the quadrennial gathering, and for 80 years presidents have steered clear of politics when doing so. Not any more.
The roles of family and community in shaping educational success
Every Saturday morning, a crowd of adults — some alone, others with toddlers in tow — squeeze into a classroom in the heart of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood to study better parenting at Baby College. In the nine-week free program, new parents learn about their child's brain and how to develop it. They learn how to read to young children, talk to a child who is too young to answer, provide balanced nutrition and offer loving discipline without anger.
University of Phoenix founder dies, leaving complex legacy
The University of Phoenix lost its founder last week at a moment when some wonder if the world's biggest for-profit college system is losing its edge. John G. Sperling died in Marin County on Friday at 93, leaving a multi-billion-dollar company and a complex legacy behind.
You'd think cursive doesn't matter anymore, but it does
Cursive writing and handwriting in general are dying arts in grade schools, as students shift to the keyboard. But some psychologists think we may be losing more than we know. "Children not only learn to read more quickly when they first learn to write by hand," reports Maria Konnikova in the New York Times, "but they also remain better able to generate ideas and retain information.
Who is unemployed in America? The answer might surprise you
The bad news is that the real number of out-of-work Americans may be closer to 14 percent, according to a new The study arrives at its number by including not just those actively looking for work but also those who need jobs but gave up looking. The Brookings study also splits out-of-work Americans into seven groups, outlined in the following pie chart.
Who is unemployed in America? The answer might surprise you
The bad news is that the real number of out-of-work Americans may be closer to 14 percent, according to a new The study arrives at its number by including not just those actively looking for work but also those who need jobs but gave up looking. The Brookings study also splits out-of-work Americans into seven groups, outlined in the following pie chart.
Who is unemployed in America? The answer might surprise you
The good news is that the official unemployment rate has fallen to a very low 4.4 percent, approaching what economists call "full employment."The bad news is that the real number of out-of-work Americans may be closer to 14 percent, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution.The study arrives at its number by including not just those actively looking for work but also those who need jobs but gave up looking.The Brookings study also splits out-of-work Americans into seven groups,...
Who is unemployed in America? The answer might surprise you
The good news is that the official unemployment rate has fallen to a very low 4.4 percent, approaching what economists call "full employment."The bad news is that the real number of out-of-work Americans may be closer to 14 percent, according to a new study by the Brookings Institution.The study arrives at its number by including not just those actively looking for work but also those who need jobs but gave up looking.The Brookings study also splits out-of-work Americans into seven groups,...
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