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Are children more unaffordable these days? Kind of, but not exactly

“It’s too expensive” is the top answer I get when I talk to normal people about the plummeting rates of marriage and family formation.

The US should help Ukraine dissect Crimea from Russia, not seize it

Retaining sufficient stockpiles of man-portable anti-air and anti-ship missiles for a looming defense of Taiwan, the United States should arm and otherwise support Ukraine until Russian President Vladimir Putin recognizes the costs of war outweigh any feasible gains.

Suspect in shooting of North Carolina 6-year-old taken into custody in Florida

The man believed to have shot at his neighbors in North Carolina, including a 6-year-old girl, earlier this week is in custody in Florida, police announced on Thursday night. Robert Louis Singletary is accused of shooting and injuring his neighbors after a basketball rolled into his yard on Tuesday. According to neighbors, Singletary and a...

Playing politics: Why won’t the Federal Reserve give us the unvarnished truth about the economy?

Would that the Fed took a larger, nonpolitical view of the situation, opened up and regularly gave us an unvarnished explanation of what’s going on.

Biden sees spike among Dems who say they would back him in 2024: poll

Over 80 percent of Democrats said they would likely vote for President Biden in 2024 despite a minority saying the want him to run for reelection, according to an AP-NORC poll released Friday, improvements on earlier figures. The poll found that just 26 percent of Americans overall and 47 percent of Democrats want Biden to...

The federal government can — and should — help the mentally ill

Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a range of cost estimates for the repeal of an archaic federal policy known as the Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) Exclusion. The rule has led to a shortage of psychiatric hospital beds nationwide, seen in tandem with hundreds of thousands of mentally ill now in jails...

UK deputy PM Dominic Raab resigns over bullying allegations

United Kingdom deputy prime minister Dominic Raab resigned Friday after an internal investigation found he bullied colleagues. Raab is just the latest senior UK official to resign in a Conservative government which has seen two Prime Ministers resign in the last year. He had promised to resign if a months-long inquiry helped back up any...

The costs of doing away with tenure

Republican governors and legislatures, as well as university boards of trustees to which they have appointed majorities, have taken various steps to roll back tenure for professors at public universities in several red states. The Florida state university system has mandated post-tenure reviews for professors even after they have earned tenure. The Texas state legislature...

Former WWE wrestler charged with theft of millions from Mississippi welfare

Ted DiBiase, Jr., son of WWE superstar Ted DiBiase, Sr., (also known as "The Million Dollar Man") was a WWE wrestler in the 2000s and 2010s.

Ohio DoorDash driver killed while on delivery: police

Police are investigating after a DoorDash food delivery driver was fatally shot on the job in Akron, Ohio.

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