The American public has been taken with scams and scammers for years now, a fascination that swelled during the first Trump presidency — the era of Anna Delvey and the Fyre Festival, “Joanne the Scammer” and N.F.T.s, when people began to see a steadily larger share of American life as some kind of racket. (Abebe, The New York Times)
Read MoreSocialism is not a passing thing but an arriving thing. It must be taken seriously as a factor in our politics and the Democratic Party. A CNN/SSRS poll issued this week reported 34% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults identify as “democratic socialists.” (Noonan, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MorePrecise numbers are hard to come by, but it's long been estimated that more than 70 million adults in the U.S. have some kind of criminal record, a number extrapolated from FBI and state data. (Hsu, NPR)
Read MoreMore than half of unmarried young adults — ages 22 to 35 — say not having enough money is their biggest barrier to dating, according to a national research project from Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute and the Institute for Family Studies. (Closson, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe songs in question? "Choosin' Texas," of course, still cruising at 16 weeks at Number One, followed by Wallen's "Been By Now," Swift's "I Knew It, I Knew You," the Wallen-Langley collab "I Can't Love You Anymore," and Lefty's "Boston." How innately "country" some of those songs are is up for debate, but it's clear that America loves a hit with at least a hint of twang. (Moss, Yahoo!)
Read MoreBy some estimates, 25,000 people in the United States are affiliated with SSPX—a tiny fraction of the roughly 53 million American Catholic adults. Many Catholics may not even know that the Church finds itself in arguably its largest schism since the 19th century. (Parrales, The Atlantic)
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