Americans Under 30 Don’t Trust Religion - or Anything Else
By: Jessica Grose - nytimes.com - November 25, 2023You’re reading the Jessica Grose newsletter, for Times subscribers only. A journalist and novelist offers her perspective on the Americanfamily, cult...
Abortion Bans Have Saved at Least 32,000 Babies From Abortions
A new national analysis finds abortion bans have saved the lives of over 32,000 babies from abortions so far, and the figure is likely higher. Births have increased in every state with an abortion ban...
Texas AG’s Office - Women Should Sue Doctors — Not State Over Lack of Abortion Access
Lawyers in the Texas attorney general’s office said Tuesday that women should sue their doctors, not the state, over a lack of access to abortion in defending the state’s strict law...
Voters Weary About Biden-Trump Rematch - Third Parties Hopeful
The 2024 presidential election is drawing a robust field of independent, third party and long shot candidates.
Countdown to Iowa - Trump Is Coasting, DeSantis and Haley Clash
By: Shane Goldmacher - nytimes.com - November 27, 2023 Negative mailers are overstuffing Iowa mailboxes. Attack ads are cluttering the airwaves. And door knockers are fanning out from Des Moines to D...
Election Officials Plan Faster 2024 Vote Count
Several battleground states have made changes to quicken the vote count — but some, most notably Pennsylvania, still lag behind.
Don't Follow Your Heart: Boldly Breaking the Ten Commandments of Self-Worship
Today we are told to be true to ourselves, look within for answers, and follow our hearts. But when we put our own happiness first, we experience record-breaking levels of aimlessness, loneliness, dep...
Evangelicals and Politics
More than 150 Iowa "faith leaders" have announced they are supporting Donald Trump in the state's forthcoming caucuses. At the same time, Bob Vander Plaats, an influential Iowa evangelical leader, is...
The Economy and Our Wallets
In a romantic relationship, one cannot generally influence his partner’s emotions with rational argument. Feelings are unmediated, unruly, and mostly instinctual things. The same may be said for our…
Value Guns More Than Life?
By: Charles C. W. Cooke - nationalreview.com - November 28, 2023 At CNN, Dominic Erdozain offers up a ridiculous piece titled, “America once valued life more than guns. How did that change?” As one m...
Apprentices to the Master Engineer
“Humanity’s Biggest Challenges. Nature’s Proven Solutions,” reads the slogan for the Biomimicry Institute. By Melissa Cain Travis
Trust Hamas?
"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." -- George Santayana