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These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work....

I’d like to know other non-US citizen’s opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?...

Last year, I wrote a great deal about the rise of “ventilation shutdown plus” (VSD+), a method being used to mass kill poultry birds on factory farms by sealing off the airflow inside barns and pumping in extreme heat using industrial-scale heaters, so that the animals die of heatstroke over the course of hours. It is one of...

Former President Donald Trump was indicted for an unprecedented third time on August 1, adding another set of serious federal charges to the mounting legal issues he faces.

Not really sure what to put here…I usually put relevant excerpts, but that got this post deleted for doing that

Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....

The plaintiffs’ arguments in Moore v. United States have little basis in law — unless you think that a list of long-ago-discarded laissez-faire decisions from the early 20th century remain good law. And a decision favoring these plaintiffs could blow a huge hole in the federal budget. While no Warren-style wealth tax is on...

Highlights: In a bizarre turn of events last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he would ban American XL bullies, a type of pit bull-shaped dog that had recently been implicated in a number of violent and sometimes deadly attacks....

Tyson Foods and the federal government refuse to show their math for a new sustainability label.

Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

It’s called “Calendargate,” and it’s raising the question of what — and whom — the right-wing war on “wokeness” is really for....

It’s an older article, but the point stands!

It turns out shoplifting isn’t spiraling out of control, but lawmakers are pushing for tougher penalties for low-level and nonviolent crimes anyway....