For more than a decade, Pew Research Center has been tracking global patterns in restrictions on religion – whether imposed by governments or by individuals or social groups. (Pew Research Center)
Read MoreSocial media, and the rise of "Make America Healthy Again" and "trad wife" influencers. Both deliver messages about hormonal birth control being bad for women. (Simmons-Duffin, NPR)
Read MoreSydney Towle, a social media memoirist who mixed anguish, optimism and unabashed wanderlust as she challenged TikTok viewers to reconsider how a cancer patient should look and live, died on Wednesday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. She was 26. (Rosman, The New York Times)
Read MoreJudge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money — $420 million — will be used for treatment services for young people. The rest will go toward awareness and prevention, screening services and other costs over the next five years. (AP/NPR)
Read MoreThe 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)
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