With its denunciation of women who obtain abortions as "murderers," the [Operation Save America] movement once represented the fringe of the anti-abortion movement. But since Roe fell, some Republican legislators have shown a new openness to its policy prescriptions. (Yousef, NPR)
Read MoreIn the recently released World Happiness Report, the United States dropped to its lowest ranking since that survey began—and that result was driven by the unhappiness of people under 30 in this country. So what’s going on? (Brooks, The Atlantic)
Read MoreAre the perceptions of greater happiness or generosity merely a tourist’s fantasy, or are these reflections of deeper realities? How do we compare to our neighbors, whether down the street or across the globe? And what is “happiness” anyway? (Case, Long, Vanderweele & Johnson, Christianity Today)
Read MoreCould a man win a fight with a gorilla? What about 100 men? Those are the questions that took over social media this week, with posts about gorilla battle royales gaining hundreds of millions of views on X and more than 4 billion potential impressions since April 19, according to analytics firm Sprout Social. TikTok videos about the debate garnered additional millions of views. (Hunter, The Washington Post)
Read MoreFor a show about a Christian megachurch pastor and his nepo baby children — between the sex, violence and full-frontal nudity courtesy of Walton Goggins — the final season of “The Righteous Gemstones” is rife with its trademark depravity. But Danny McBride, who stars in and created the HBO series, has always hoped it would speak to people of faith, even as he acknowledged his crude sense of humor might not be for everyone. (Fauria, AP News)
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