There are lots of ideas about how to save local news. One of them is that increasing coverage of local politics will bring back readers and viewers. Research shows that it doesn’t.
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Dogs have lived with Indigenous Americans since before they came to the continent together 10,000 years ago. A new analysis reveals the lineage of one 1800s ‘woolly dog’ from the Pacific Northwest.
Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase is misleading.
Artificial intelligence could be used to generate content intended to manipulate people. Addressing this problem means understanding how communication works to influence people.
The challenging realities surrounding end-of-life care are especially difficult for older people experiencing homelessness, who have more barriers to accessing hospice care.
Tucker Carlson and his employer, Fox News, had an incredible understanding of what their audience wants: a kind of authenticity that is not genuine but instead manipulative.
Two decades of drought have reduced the river’s flow by one-third compared to historical averages. The Biden administration is considering mandatory cuts to some states’ water allocations.
President Biden outlined his achievements in key policy areas and sketched out his plans for the rest of his term in office.
Police departments have faced recruitment and retention problems since the 2020 George Floyd protests. It has meant some agencies have had to lower standards to attract new officers.
Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.
The Utah holiday is a reflection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ slowly changing identity, a historian of Mormonism and migration writes.
More carbon dioxide in the air doesn’t necessarily mean more growth for trees, and the increasing risk of wildfires and drought has major consequences, as an interactive map shows.
Snowmaking machines can produce enough snow to cover a run, but artificial snow is very different from natural flakes that fall from the sky.
A Western scholar proposes allocating water from the Colorado River based on percentages of its actual flow instead of fixed amounts that exceed what’s there – and including tribes this time.
Abuse, neglect or witnessing violence at home can lead kids to misbehave. Some schools are doing away with expulsions to focus on childhood trauma instead.
Many aspects of American society, from language to sports to fashion, remain structured or separated by gender.
A genderqueer sociologist offers tips to disrupt gender-based discrimination in childhood.
When police arrest a suspect who is then convicted of the crime, it is a rare exception rather than the rule in the US.
Rush Limbaugh is said to have presented the world as a simple binary – as a struggle only between good and evil. That worked, as a philosopher explains, because many people live in echo chambers.
Tanpa memperbaiki sistem perizinan penelitian asing, UU Sisnas Iptek dapat menghambat kolaborasi riset internasional.
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Utah
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Utah
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Ph.D. Candidate in U.S. History, University of Utah
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James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah
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Associate Professor, City & Metropolitan Planning, College Of Social Work, University of Utah
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Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Utah
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Professor, Communication, University of Utah
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Professor of Criminal Law, University of Utah
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Professor of Law, University of Utah
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Associate Professor of Ecology, School Of Biological Sciences, University of Utah
