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February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…back in the 1980s and 1990s—of the relationship between religion and sex obscure this important sociological truth: for most husbands and wives, more faith equals better sex. The next time…
February 14, 2024
Want To Slash Your Risk For Divorce? Start Going To Church
…religious believers who regularly attend church, synagogue, temple, and so on, several times a month or more. Their ties to their local religious communities and their faith generally endow their…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…the Wheatley Institute, unmarried adults aged 18-55 were twice as likely to say they are lonely “most of the time” or “all the time” as married adults (28% vs.14%). The…
February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer.” Or The Atlantic in 2019, offering “The Case Against Marriage.” Or, in 2021, The New York Times with “Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love.” In the Times piece,…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
During his time as the U.S. ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he faced a choice between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…time, as with tobacco, public health authorities should mount education campaigns to minimize marijuana use, in light of its demonstrated dangers. How-Should-State-and-Local-Governments-Respond-to-Illegal-Retail-CannabisDownload Introduction Legal cannabis has become a fact of…
January 16, 2024
Dry January Should Be Drug Free
…alcoholism contributes to premature deaths—but slowly and over time. The wave of drug overdoses has hit hard—and in the moment, as we rightly wring out hands about “deaths of despair.”…
December 15, 2023
Pro-Family Policy Priorities for States
…to state. And many states are exploring how to orient their policy status quo in a more pro- family direction. At a time when many states are strug- gling to…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…owners of capital are just as inclined as ardent socialists to seek such favors. But only free markets have demonstrated the power to raise living standards over time. It is worth noting at this…
November 17, 2023
Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
…men (aged 25–35) who are working full-time fell from about 80 percent in the 1990s to less than 70 percent today. For men without college degrees, the fall in full-time…