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August 12, 2023
Gen Z Shouldn’t Dismiss Marriage So Lightly
…who is happy in America. Falling marriage rates, meanwhile, are a chief reason why happiness has declined nationally, according to this study. All of this runs counter to the cultural…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…pay, poor training and the heartbreaking nature of the job. For others, though, it could make agents change the way they do their jobs, treating black children differently because the…
August 11, 2023
Why Does NY Campaign To Stop Smoking But Not Illicit Drug Use?
…scheduled to go up to $5.35 per pack Sept. 1. Instead, the Department of Health’s Tobacco Control Program, funded by the court-ordered national tobacco settlement, lists clearly its highest priority:…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
…what is the reason so many young people are leaving religion? There’s no single answer, but the most compelling explanation is that changes in American family life precipitated this national…
August 8, 2023
Bad Hoosiers
…terror. His influence reached all the way to Washington and into the nation’s political parties. While local Republicans were absorbed into the Klan, national Republican politicians, including Presidents Harding and…
August 7, 2023
Union Square Melee Proves Riots Have Little to Do with Real Political Grievances
…the part of teenagers drawn to 14th Street by Kai Cenat, an online “influencer” with millions of followers, including thousands eager for free PlayStations he used to lure them to demonstrate…
August 7, 2023
The Right Way to Fix Public Broadcasting
…federal funding “solely to be used for acquiring or producing programming that is to be distributed nationally and is designed to serve the needs of a national audience.” NPR’s federal…
August 3, 2023
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…national conversation about charity. Take donor-advised funds (DAFs), in which wealthy individuals give their money to nonprofit organizations but retain a role in advising on how it is invested and…
August 3, 2023
Another Pandemic Legacy: Removing the EITC’s Work and Earnings Requirement
…growing support for work, some liberal policymakers are now proposing to pay EITC checks even for years when adults don’t work, fundamentally altering the nature of this pro-work program. Total…
August 3, 2023
Fight Crime, and Poverty, with Civil Society
…County, in particular, has a much higher crime rate than the national average, and crime has been rising since the COVID lockdowns, which were extraordinarily draconian in PG County. Moore…