Data collected from 35 American cities showed a 21% decrease in the homicide rate from 2024 to 2025, translating to about 922 fewer homicides last year, according to a new report from the independent Council on Criminal Justice. (Lauer, AP News)
Read MoreBritain’s top doctors and medical experts have declared a “public health emergency” over the effect screen time and harmful online content is having on children’s physical and mental wellbeing. (Wheeler, The Times)
Read MoreFor anyone fantasizing about Hollywood as some liberal bulwark, though, the 2024 election brought that idea to an abrupt halt. The industry’s era of progressive sincerity, and much of its wariness toward conservative-coded content, has evaporated. (Henry, The New York Times)
Read MoreThis is during a time of acute anxiety and curiosity about young men in America. Much ink has been spilled about their loneliness, their jawlines, their physical fitness and about being “performative males.” (O’Neill, The Washington Post)
Read MoreAmericans’ current levels of charitable activities are somewhat different from what they were in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial contributions have eased slightly, registering five percentage points lower than in 2021, but volunteering is seven points higher now. (Brenan, Gallup)
Read MoreThe Catholic share of the population in several Latin American countries has shrunk over the last 10 years, while a growing percentage of Latin American adults are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” (Lesage et al., Pew Research Center)
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