Americans increasingly see themselves as supportive of the right to have an abortion and disagree with the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision last year overturning the guaranteed right to an abortion in this country, the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. (Montanaro, NPR)
Read MoreIn Generations, Jean Twenge analyzes mental health trends for five age groups, from the Silent Generation, who were born between 1925 and 1945, to Gen Z, who were born between 1995 and 2012. She shows definitively that "the way teens spend their time outside of school fundamentally changed in 2012," as Twenge writes in the book. (Doucleff, NPR)
Read MoreIn an expansive forest near Kenya’s southern coast, detectives have been exhuming bodies of people who starved to death to go to “heaven,” allegedly at the orders of a Christian pastor. (Nzwili, Religion News Service)
Read MoreIn the past decade, major companies have leaned into liberal social politics that are increasingly anathema to their longstanding allies in the Republican Party and the consumers who vote for them. (Homans, The New York Times)
Read MoreA new study suggests religion can also prompt people to be generous to outsiders, even those from groups they distrust…. Asking those participants about God — or about what God wanted them to do — led to an 11% increase in giving (Smietana, Religion News Service)
Read MoreNorth Dakota became the latest state on Monday to enact a near-total ban on abortion, just one month after the State Supreme Court temporarily blocked a similar ban from taking effect. (Sasani, The New Your Times)
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