The American Medical Association says that “physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer” and poses “serious societal risks,” although a number of state medical organizations have opted to remain neutral or… to support passage. (Span, The New York Times)
Read MoreIn a poll conducted between 2019 and 2021, 25-year-old respondents were about three times more likely to identify their faith tradition as “just Christian” than to say they were Protestant. Among older Americans, the pattern reversed sharply—70-year-olds were three times more likely to choose “Protestant” over “just Christian.” (Burge & Richardson, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations. (Smith, AP News)
Read MoreAs voters approach the 2026 midterm and 2028 presidential election, it’s no secret that the country is highly polarized. But a new exhaustive survey of more than 10,000 Americans shows the daunting challenges Republicans and Democrats face in uniting disparate factions within their own parties. (Clement, The Washington Post)
Read MoreThe effects of artificial intelligence on learning are still largely unclear. But a new NPR/Ipsos poll of K-12 teachers found that nearly 3-in-4 believe AI has bigger implications for education than past innovations like the internet or computers. (Gaines, NPR)
Read MoreGenerative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot. (Chiang, The Atlantic)
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