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The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me... →
The principle of plural marriage was revealed to the Mormons amid much secrecy. Dark clouds hovered over the church in the early 1840s, after rumors... →
Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word... →
As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people... →
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available -... →
The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at... →
I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.
In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church. Striving to be as... →
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the... →
My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along... →
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