Young adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weissbourd, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. His team found that 36 percent of participants ages 18 to 25 reported experiencing anxiety and 29 percent reported experiencing depression—about double the proportion of 14-to-17-year-olds on each measure. (Hill, The Atlantic)
Read MoreStudent behavior problems, cellphones in class, anemic pay and artificial-intelligence-powered cheating are taking their toll on America’s roughly 3.8 million teachers, on top of the bruising pandemic years. (Barnum, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreStarbuck, who has been waging campaigns against corporate DEI programs, approached Lowe’s last week, telling the company he planned to target the home-improvement giant over policies such as their employee resource groups and donations to Pride events. The company responded Monday with preemptive changes, Starbuck said in a post on X. (Telford, The Washington Post)
Read More“If we look at the West against a global background, the striking thing about our situation is that we are in a competition of beliefs, whether we like it or not.” (Davies, New Statesman)
Read MoreAfghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said. (Yawar & Greenfield, Reuters)
Read MorePlenty of American women are finding that they don’t need a husband to enjoy their golden years. Both men and women in their mid-60s or older are more likely to be divorced or never married than at any time in the past three decades. But the women are much less likely than their male counterparts to get remarried. (Torry, The Wall Street Journal)
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