An unfair system arrested millions of blacks, urged compassion for whites
The dichotomy is stark. When it comes to the heroin and prescription opioid epidemic, the priority is saving lives. In contrast, the remedy for crack was mass arrests and stiff prison sentences. One state even seriously considered bringing back the whipping post to punish drug offenders.
Trusting the News Media in the Trump Era
A new Pew Research Center exploration of more than 50 different surveys conducted by the Center – combined with an analysis of well over 100 questions measuring possible factors that could drive trust in the news media – confirms that in the Trump era nothing comes close to matching the impact of political party identification. On item after item, Republicans consistently express far greater skepticism of the news media and their motives than Democrats, according to this analysis that focuses on trust in the news media during 2018 and 2019.
Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Coming Back
But one finding in the survey signals that even millennials who grew up religious may be increasingly unlikely to return to religion. In the 1970s, most nonreligious Americans had a religious spouse and often, that partner would draw them back into regular religious practice. But now, a growing number of unaffiliated Americans are settling down with someone who isn’t religious — a process that may have been accelerated by the sheer number of secular romantic partners available, and the rise of online dating. Today, 74 percent of unaffiliated millennials have a nonreligious partner or spouse, while only 26 percent have a partner who is religious.
Biblical Literalism among American Protestants
As previously noted, about 40 percent of all Christians are literalists. That’s essentially be the case with some small deviations since 1984. However, something interesting is happening among the most religiously active. While half of them used to be biblical literalists in 1984, now that share has jumped to nearly 60%. In fact, the most religiously devout have become more theologically conservative over time.
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
A new Pew Research Center study of 130 countries and territories shows that the U.S. has the world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households. Almost a quarter of U.S. children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adults (23%), more than three times the share of children around the world who do so (7%). The study, which analyzed how people’s living arrangements differ by religion, also found that U.S. children from Christian and religiously unaffiliated families are about equally likely to live in this type of arrangement.
Like oysters and oil before it, attention is a scarce resource, and we need to use it wisely. Too often, it feels cheaper to simply take what we can get, but when we overreach, the cost in trust is real.
Ewoks Are the Most Tactically Advanced Fighting Force in Star Wars
In this single engagement, the Ewoks manage to overwhelm and completely defeat a technologically superior force simply by using conventional military tactics and the principles of multi-domain operations. Through the synchronization of direct and indirect fire, close air support, combat engineer principles, deception, psychological operations, and massing their forces at the key point in time and space, the Ewoks demonstrate their proficiency in land warfare.
Apostrophe campaign ends due to ‘ignorance and laziness’
The Apostrophe Protection Society was started by John Richards in 2001 to tackle misuse of the punctuation mark. His work involved advising people on proper use and writing to organisations to highlight their apostrophe abuse. The 96-year-old said: “We have done our best but the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won.”
Texas man saves dog from leash stuck in elevator door
A Texas man’s fast actions have gone viral on Twitter after he shared security camera footage of him saving a small dog on a leash from a risky situation with an apartment complex elevator.