Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints used to be more evenly split between the two major political parties, supporting Democrats Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Lyndon ...

The U.S. has a love-hate relationship with its rigid, longstanding two-party political system, as evidenced by the every-four-years refrain, "I'm voting for the lesser of two evils." Voters often feel ...

(RNS) — What explains more than a half-century of ruby-red Republicanism in the Mormon-dominated state of Utah? How did Latter-day Saints become so Republican in the first place? A new book about Ezra ...

Editor’s note • The following is adapted from “American Zion: A New History of Mormonism” (Liveright, 2024). Just as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sought to stitch together its ...

Ezra Taft Benson, head of the Mormon Church since 1985, died Monday at his home in Salt Lake City. Church officials said he had been hospitalized briefly last week for congestive heart failure. He was ...

BYU chemistry students place decorations provided by the Benson family on a Christmas tree in the Benson Building. The decoration party allowed descendants of Ezra Taft Benson and students to connect ...

Steve Benson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Arizona Republic, died at 71. Benson, grandson of LDS prophet Ezra Taft Benson, left the church after witnessing his grandfather being ...