A week or so ago, many of us saw an article trending on Facebook about Taylor Santos, a 15-year-old Texas schoolgirl whose mom is understandably on the warpath after the male vice principal administered...

In my early teens, I started reading the Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. The books were fun, kind of annoying, but something that had a serious impact on me was the fact that Mia, the series' protagonist,...

I am not a Republican, nor am I a Democrat. I guess that makes me an independent, or some obscure alternative party I have yet to discover, but whatever you want to call it, I have equal distaste for both...

I apologize for being the 50th person you've heard mention Fifty Shades of Grey today — although Utah is one of the states which, according to a national survey, is the least likely to read or like the series....

I'm not going to say colleges are cesspools of depression and anxiety, but . . . the 2006 American College Health Association Survey found that 45 percent of women and 36 percent of men in college reported...

In a recent interview with the Daily Nation, Kenyan model Ajuma Nasenyana became the latest to speak out against skin-lightening cream. Nasenyana is well known for being outspoken against the skin-lightening...

I must be crazy. I’m actually about to willingly go there, one of the all-time touchiest topics for people of just about any stance: homosexuality in the LDS Church. Well, that might be overselling...

You think companies that make delicious products ever call a meeting and say, “OK, gang, business is good, but there’s one of our products that is just far too delicious and people like way too much....

Along with the rest of the world, I went and saw what I think can safely be called the movie of the year — because all the other big movie events of the year are sequels to the movies of other years...

Before Facebook, we thought our friends’ personalities were diverse and complex. And when we first opened our accounts, we could barely pace ourselves as to our status updates because the possibilities...

Remember in elementary school when our teachers read dystopian fiction to us, and we thought killing newborns and elders because they were inconvenient to society was pure fantasy, a cool but far-fetched...

Most people have a bucket list, whether vaguely floating around in their heads or meticulously formatted and regularly updated on Microsoft Excel, and I am no exception. Like most people’s, my list...