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Alexander Muse Last week, in a Bronx courtroom that drew almost no cameras, Judge Audrey Stone found Dimone Fleming not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect for stabbing her sons, Daishawn Fleming, 3, and Octavius Canada, 11 months old, to death. The prosecution stipulated to postpartum psychosis. Fleming will not go to prison. […]
Cremieux How many of the people who would’ve been in your generational cohort aren’t here because they were aborted? Between the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 and the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationdecision in 2022, women had access to abortion because of the Supreme Court’s decision to establish a woman’s constitutional right to it based on […]
Steven Ertelt: The dismissal fulfills the terms of a January 2025 settlement in which California dropped all chargesagainst Daleiden and undercover reporter Sandra Merritt. The agreement required no jail time, no fines, no admission of wrongdoing and no probation. In exchange, the pair entered a “no contest” plea to a single misdemeanor video-recording charge, which […]
Leif Le Mahieu Unborn babies continue to be aborted at a higher rate across the United States despite the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the implementation of stronger pro-life laws, according to new data. Data released in December by the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning revealed that the number of monthly abortions continued to […]
Bryan Caplan: Only a small minority of pregnancies have horrible physical consequences, and people who are contemplating an abortion rarely claim otherwise. But when contemplating an abortion, many if not most prospective parents predict horrible mental consequences for themselves. In the vernacular: “A baby would ruin my life.” If my argument so far is correct, the correct reaction to […]
Alexandra Topping: Almost three in 10 conceptions ended in legal abortions in the two nations in 2022, up from about two in 10 a decade earlier, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The percentage of conceptions leading to legal abortion – which has been increasing for all age groups since […]
Erkmen G. Aslim, Wei Fu, Caitlin K. Myers, Erdal Tekin & Bingjin Xue We study how abortion access affects economic hardship and crime. Using a database of abortion provider locations and operations in Texas from 2009–2019, we exploit variation in travel distance to the nearest facility created by clinic closures following the enforcement of Texas […]
Cremieux: How many of the people who would’ve been in your generational cohort aren’t here because they were aborted? Between the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 and the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationdecision in 2022, women had access to abortion because of the Supreme Court’s decision to establish a woman’s constitutional right to it based on […]
Benjamin Rothove: The 247,703 recorded abortions in 2022 is a 13.1 percent increase from the 218,923 abortions recorded in 2021. The numbers represent a nearly 50 percent jump in abortions since 2012, when 20.84 percent of conceptions ended in termination. Most conceptions – 61.7 percent – occurred outside of marriage or civil partnerships. Within marriage […]
Dan Lennington Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down 1849 abortion ban. Honoring campaign promises, 4-3 liberal majority proclaims the law was “impliedly repealed.” Decision leaves in place major restrictions. 🧵 1/ More. Choose life.
Anna Lulis: “You can try to kill off everyone with Down syndrome by using abortion, but you won’t be any closer to a perfect society. You will just be closer to a cruel, heartless one.” Charlotte Helene Fien pleads for the protection of unborn children with an extra chromosome at the UN.
Alex Demas Kirk and Solomon’s claims are correct. Minnesota Department of Health documents show that eight infants were born alive during abortion procedures between 2019 and 2022, and, in 2023, Walz signed legislation that repealed most of a statute designed to protect infants born alive after an abortion attempt. Born-alive infants in Minnesota. Minnesota state […]
Michael Dorgan: The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is negotiating a new contract with the public schools system and is understood to be calling for an extra $50 billion to pay for wage hikes as well as other demands such as fully paid abortions for its members, new migrant services and facilities and a host of LGBT-related requirements and […]
Lisa Carr: Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow, and Paul Place had charges brought against them for being part of a peaceful protest on March 5, 2021. They gathered on the second floor of an office building in the hallway outside the Carafem Health Center Clinic. The group prayed, sang hymns, and urged women showing up to […]
Harm Venhuizen “I continue to believe that having ‘we the people’ decide the profound moral issue of abortion is the only way to find a reasonable consensus that most people will accept,” Johnson said in a statement Wednesday. “One of the benefits of a one-time, single-issue referendum would be the education and discussion that would […]
Jim Nelles: Interestingly, Ginsburg had spoken about the case she wished had been heard by the Supreme Court, Struck v. Secretary of Defense. Ginsburg represented Captain Susan Struck, who became pregnant while serving in the Air Force in Viet Nam. The Air Force told her to either terminate the pregnancy or leave the Air Force. Struck […]
Emily Fowler: With the anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade just around the corner, Campus Reform reached out to student leaders of pro-life organizations across the country to see what the campus climate has been like since the landmark Dobbs decision was handed down. Three out of five students Campus Reform interviewed stated that they have experienced more vandalism and backlash since Roe was overturned […]
Ross Douthat “You can’t insist that the immediate economic benefits of ending a pregnancy should be counted in Roe v. Wade’s favor, but any of the larger negative shifts in mating and marriage…””… and child rearing associated with abortion can’t be considered as part of the debate…. [Consider a] world clearly shadowed by the effects […]
Olivia McCormack Ryan Bomberger comes from a family of 15. He was adopted out of the foster-care system — along with 9 of his 12 siblings. Bomberger is staunchly antiabortion, in part because of the circumstances around his own conception, he said. “I am 100 percent antiabortion, 100 percent pro-life,” said Bomberger, a 51-year-old living […]
Eugene Volokh: The student government president’s executive orderprovides, among other things, That it shall be prohibited for the Undergraduate Student Government Executive Branch to contract or expend funds to any individual, business, or organization which actively advocates to further limit by law access to reproductive healthcare, including, though not limited to, contraception and induced abortions. This […]
Janice Goldwater: In a 2016 analysis as part of the five-year Turnaway Study… UCSF researchers… found that one week after being denied an abortion due to a late-term pregnancy just 14 percent of 171 study participants reported plans to place the baby for adoption or considered it as an option. Only nine percent of those […]
Eugene Volokh: I don’t think that a public university’s “mission and values” should be to promote a reading of the Constitution as securing abortion rights, or as not securing abortion rights, as opposed to promoting research on this and related questions. And while of course a public university that runs hospitals should generally perform legal […]
Ann Althouse A key I use to understanding puzzles like this is: People do what they want to do. What have they done? Begin with the hypothesis that what they did is what they wanted to do. If they postured that they wanted to do something else, regard that as a con. Work from there. […]
Collin Anderson: Roughly a decade before his death in 1996, tech titan David Packard issued a controversial directive to his children. Skyrocketing birth rates, the Hewlett-Packard cofounder wrote, could one day cause “utter chaos for humanity.” As a result, Packard asserted, his multibillion-dollar foundation must hold one priority above all others: population control. Packard—a Republican who […]
Amrit Dhillon: An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate. Academics from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia projected the sex ratio at birth in 29 Indian states and union territories, covering almost the entire population, taking […]
Patrick Hauf: The NEA is the largest teachers’ union in the U.S. with more than 3 million members. It collected nearly $400 million from American educators in 2018, according to federal labor filings. The union is also one of the most politically active in the country, spending $70 million on politics and lobbying in 2017 […]
Harriett Sherwood: On Friday, the court of protection in London decided an abortion was in the best interests of the woman, who is in her 20s, and is 22 weeks pregnant. She has the mental capacity of a six- to nine-year-old child. Justice Nathalie Lieven, who made the original ruling, described it as “heartbreaking”, saying: […]
Ross Douthat: The Thomas argument, common inside the pro-life movement but startling to many, is that the present “reproductive rights” regime may effectively extend older eugenic efforts to reduce populations deemed unfit. His dissent cited the eugenic inclinations of progressive icons like Margaret Sanger, while pointing out that today’s abortion rates are highest among populations […]
Carly Cassella : While no country has a perfectly even sex ratio, normally researchers would expect roughly 105 male births to every 100 female births. Compiling data from over 200 nations – including 10,835 observations, and 16,602 years of information – the authors noticed a shocking number of countries have strayed from this mark. “The […]
What’s on Weibo: A recent article, in which two Chinese academics propose the implementation of some sort of ‘tax’ for people under 40 who have no second child, has sparked outrage on social media. “The same woman who had to undergo a forced abortion before, is now pressured to get pregnant,” some say. A controversial […]
Lemor Abrams: This week, Rocklin High School students are using social media to organize a pro-life walkout using the hashtag #life. “To honor all the lives of aborted babies pretty much. All the millions of aborted babies every year,” said organizer Brandon Gillespie. He says his history teacher inspired the idea. As thousands of students […]
Snopes: The report does not suggest that, however. It suggests that nearly 100 percent of the 80 to 85 percent of people who take the test choose to abort their pregnancy. There are similar termination rates after fetal diagnoses of Down syndrome in other European countries. In Denmark, for example, the rate is about 98 […]
Wang Lianzhang: After spending more than 10 years away from his hometown of Luokan, in the southwestern province of Yunnan, a 42-year-old man was forced by local authorities to undergo a vasectomy upon returning for the lunar new year holiday. He was taken away by family planning officials on Feb. 8, and the operation was […]
Chinese doctors have performed more than 330m abortions since the government implemented a controversial family planning policy 40 years ago, according to official data from the health ministry.
China’s one-child policy has been the subject of a heated debate about its economic consequences as the population ages. Forced abortions and sterilisations have also been criticised by human rights campaigners such as Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal activist who sought refuge at the US embassy in Beijing last year.
China first introduced measures to limit the size of the population in 1971, encouraging couples to have fewer children. The one-child rule, with exceptions for ethnic minorities and some rural families, was implemented at the end of the decade.
Since 1971, doctors have performed 336m abortions and 196m sterilisations, the data reveal. They have also inserted 403m intrauterine devices, a normal birth control procedure in the west but one that local officials often force on women in China.
Veterinary and medical professionals in Wisconsin said Friday that they have been warned about a potentially alarming practice among the state’s rural youth: teenage girls ingesting livestock drugs to cheaply and discreetly end their unwanted pregnancies.
So far, the professionals in animal and human health and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction are treating the reports of girls inducing their own abortions with prostaglandins – drugs commonly used by cow breeders to regulate animals’ heat cycles – as rumors, because no cases have been officially confirmed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
But Anna Anderson, the executive director of Care Net Pregnancy Center of Green County in Monroe, maintains that she has identified at least 10 girls ages 14 to 18 in a three-county area who admitted to taking some form of cow abortifacient in the past year.
Anderson said the girls told her they took it because they found it to be a cheap and easy way to end their pregnancies without their parents finding out.
At the American Veterinary Medical Association, Assistant Director Kimberly May said Friday that her organization first heard the rumor about the teenagers in mid-February from the Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association. Since then, the American Animal Hospital Association has also posted an advisory about the issue on its Web site.
Injected properly in livestock, prostaglandins shorten a heat cycle so a female animal can be bred again, May said.
Josh Blackman: When the history of the American Bar Association’s downfall is written, one theme will recur: it didn’t have to end this way. By the 1960s, nearly half of the lawyers in the United States were members of the ABA. Congress, Presidents, and the courts consulted the ABA closely as a trusted advisor on […]
Brooke Schultz: Seven states, however, will see declines of more than 20 percent, and five high population states (California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania) are anticipated to account for three-fourths of the total projected decline between 2023 and 2041. The decline is dependent on two factors, the report states: declining births, which fell sharply […]
Douglas Belkin and Josh Ulick: Higher education is hitting a demographic cliff. After years of growth, the pipeline of 18-year-olds is dwindling—a result of lower birthrates. The largest number of Americans born in a single year arrived on campus in the autumn of 2025, and now a falloff is looming. College enrollments are forecast to […]
Katie Pavlich: “The authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%, but the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester. This is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-market data. These figures mirror the effects of chemical abortion drugs such as RU-486.”
Eco3min For most of recorded U.S. history, children have far outnumbered older adults. The U.S. Census Bureau now projects that this will reverse around 2029, when, for the first time, there will be more Americans aged 65 and older than children under 18. The shift is not a forecast about a distant century. In 1950 […]
Emi Nietfield: In some ways, Ms. Perez’s ambitions reminded me of those of a 2010s-era girl boss. But there is a crucial difference: She is not willing to sacrifice her personal life for a company title. Ms. Perez’s fiancé graduated last year and now works as an admissions officer at St. Mary’s. They are marrying next […]
Tyler Cowen: Each individual will be seen as something special by the other humans. Public spaces will be emptier, so anyone out in public will attract more notice. If you are waiting in line at the movie theater, you will be more likely to start talking to the person next to you. After all, you […]
Peter Beck & Seamus Hughes New legislation offers the possibility of free and searchable access to court records. But there are other systemic issues within the judiciary that still hinder transparency. In Federalist No. 62, James Madison wrote, “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of […]
Wisconsin Policy Forum: The number of students in Wisconsin’s public elementary and secondary schools declined by 9.2% over the past 16 years, even as the number of public schools decreased by 3.2%, and staff employed in public schools increased 7.0%. Data for this report come from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, including its enrollment files and […]
The Economist: You are having too many babies. For decades that crude message was drilled into the minds of Indians by their rulers, abetted by inept foreign donors. In the 1960s slogans on school buildings chided parents, telling them: “Two or three children, enough”. By the 1970s officials had taken a crueller turn, overseeing the […]
Elizabeth Hernandez: Between 2007 and 2025, births in the U.S. declined by 16%. In Colorado, they decreased about 8% during the same timeframe, according to Neal Marquez, projections demographer at the Colorado State Demography Office. The Boulder-based Western Interstate Commission predicts a 12% decline in Colorado’s high school graduates between 2023 and 2041. A total […]
Steven Pinker: The innumeracy of narrative journalism: Long NYT essay on the fertility decline blames it on uncertainty due to rises in mortality, inequality, unemployment, work vulnerability, poverty, etc., without citing a single datum on how any of these have changed over time, nor even the simplest correlations with fertility. | Why So Few Babies? […]
Sarah Mervosh, Francesca Paris and Claire Cain Miller With fewer students, many public school districts are confronting unfilled classrooms, and hard choices about school closures. As American women have fewer babies each year, the number of young children in the United States is dwindling. The trend is now catching up to the nation’s public school districts. There […]
Ness Sandoval: If you follow the national headlines, you will see a familiar story: the United States is experiencing historic declines in births. That is true. But when you move from the national narrative to the regional data, a sharper reality comes into focus. The 2025 population estimates suggest that the 15 county St. Louis […]
Frederick Hess & Annika Marshall The ideological tilt of academe is striking. Today, 60 percent of faculty identify as far left or liberal and just 12 percent as conservative. Fifty-four percent of humanities faculty and 45 percent of social sciences faculty say that terms such as “radical,” “activist,” “Marxist,” or “socialist” describe them at least moderately well. […]
Eve Dowdell: The Turning Point chapter at University of Minnesota (UMN) is calling on the university to reprimand students from the Planned Parenthood Generation Action Club for disrupting their meeting on March 18 and violating the Student Code of Conduct and Civic Engagement Policy. According to an incident report from one of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) […]
Mary Spicuzza: She said she was devastated after losing a 2015 case involving a brother and sister in foster care, one in which she remembers a Dane County judge telling her “the law did not matter” and separated the children. “I decided then and there that I could do so much better,” Lazar said. “And […]
Corrinne Hess: From 2002 through 2023, student enrollment declined 7.3 percent in Wisconsin, from 875,592 students to 811,661. That was compared to a 1.3 percent decline nationally during the same period, according to the Policy Forum. Reasons for the decline are multi-faceted, said Mike Johnson, superintendent of the Eau Claire Area School District. “I think […]
Alex Tahk Executive Summary This survey of tenure-track and tenured faculty at UW–Madison examines the ideological composition of the faculty, attitudes toward hiring, perceptions of campus climate, and experiences with expressing controversial opinions. Ideological Composition UW–Madison faculty are substantially more liberal than both the general American public and Americans with doctoral degrees. Seven in ten […]
Oona Milliken & Isabella Aldrete The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) quietly entered an agreement in 2023 with Flock Security, an automated license plate reader company that uses cameras to collect vehicle information and cross-reference it with police databases. But unlike many of the other police departments around the country that use the cameras in their […]
Alec Johnson Declining enrollment is a big reason behind school closures Shaw said that while the Policy Forum has not specifically studied school closures, it has closely tracked student enrollment, which has a direct effect on funding. Enrollment has declined at public school districts every year for more than a decade. That decline has affected […]
The Standard 英文虎報: China’s population fell for a fourth consecutive year in 2025 as the birthrate plunged to a record low, official data showed on Monday, with experts warning of further decline. Li The country’s population dropped by 3.39 million to 1.405 billion, a faster decline than 2024, while the total number of births dropped […]
By Elizabeth Rembert, Amanda Albright and Marie Patino The Big TakeTrinity Christian College, Siena Heights University and Sterling College couldn’t pull through. In 2025, they succumbed to a fundamental problem killing colleges across the US: not enough students. The schools will award their final degrees this spring, stranding students not yet ready to graduate and […]
FutureDad: ‘Everything is incentives, the rest is commentary.’ – Stephen Landsburg The world’s fertility rate has crashed in the last few decades. Some selected examples from 1950 to 2021 are1: – South Korea’s dropped from 5.72 to 0.82. Italy’s dropped from 2.45 to 1.21. Morocco’s dropped from 7.18 to 2.26. Canada’s dropped from 3.31 to 1.46. […]
Phoebe Arslanagic-Little This disaster has sources that will sound eerily familiar to Western readers, including harsh tradeoffs between careers and motherhood, an arms race of intensive parenting, a breakdown in the relations between men and women, and falling marriage rates. In all these cases, what distinguishes South Korea is that these factors occur in a […]
Hannah Black: I compulsively read whatever perspectives I could find online by people who regretted having children. No one who didn’t want a child would have read so much about the experience of having children. I was looking for an armature to make conscious a decision that I had already unconsciously made. Regret is a […]
Evan Goldstein and Len Gutkin: Robert P. George, the conservative legal scholar and moral philosopher, has spent the past four decades at Princeton University assiduously cultivating an ever-widening network of influence. For parts of the religious right, he’s an intellectual lodestar on issues including gay marriage, abortion, and stem-cell research. The Catholic journal Crisis once quipped that “if there […]
Sichuan Mala: My husband and I have recently been considering starting a family together (i.e., having children). Naturally, wanting to give my children the best chance at a healthy, successful life, I spent some time over the past several weeks personally surveying the landscape of embryo selection companies. These companies essentially facilitate in vitro fertilization by using polygenic […]
Youyou Zhou: Find where to move based on your priorities. The United States is reaching its lowest birth ratein history, but that alarming outcome isn’t necessarily intentional. Pew Research Center data show that the majority of young Americans today still want to have children: More than 7 out of 10 people in their 20s and 30s have or plan to have […]
Census.gov As recently as 2020, there were just three states where older adults outnumbered children: Maine, Vermont, and Florida. By 2024, this number had increased to 11, with Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and West Virginia joining their ranks. Choose life.
Maarten Boudry For the past few years, I have been the holder of a Chair at Ghent University dedicated in honour of Etienne Vermeersch, a Belgian philosopher renowned for many things but perhaps most notably for his early warnings about overpopulation and his advocacy for birth control. A few years before his untimely death in 2019, […]
Ira Stoll: Alas, the Doft Lecture featured only the left-leaning Goldberg, not the more conservative Douthat, so for “vitality” the audience had to settle for Penslar, a liberal, pushing Goldberg with questions. He appeared to be doing his best, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the event from turning into a kind of anti-Trump rally […]
US District Court alt link ORDER For the reasons stated in the memorandum opinion issued today, it is this 7th day of August, 2025, hereby ORDERED: 1. 2. 3. The plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, ECF 97, is GRANTED. A class is CERTIFIED under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(2) consisting of: Any child who […]
Louise Perry: “I do not think this is a coincidence. About 30 years ago, P.D. James’s prescient novel ‘The Children of Men’ imagined that a birthrate crisis would induce governments to facilitate the suicides of the elderly in a ritual known as ‘the Quietus.’… The population pyramid is increasingly inverted…. This poses an existential threat […]
Stephanie Hegarty: Namrata Nangia and her husband have been toying with the idea of having another child since their five-year-old daughter was born.But it always comes back to one question: ‘Can we afford it?’ She lives in Mumbai and works in pharmaceuticals, her husband works at a tyre company. But the costs of having one […]
The Economist Without fanfare, something remarkable has happened. The noxious practice of aborting girls simply for being girls has become dramatically less common. It first became widespread in the late 1980s, as cheap ultrasound machines made it easy to determine the sex of a fetus. Parents who were desperate for a boy but did not […]
Rachel Cohen: The average age of a new mom is now 27.5, up from age 21 in 1970. I had no interest in having kids in my early twenties, but there are certainly reasons others might want that: Fertility decreases with age, and some find it easier to keep up with young children when they […]
Quinton Klabon: I again emphasize that the falling birth rate is bad. The Demographic Future of Humanity: Facts and Consequences Credentialism and family formation. ——- Choose Life
Daniel Buck: One question persists in American education: How pervasive are the stories of kindergartners learning about transgenderism or high-schoolers waving Hamas flags in hallways? Among the four million teachers in the U.S. there will inevitably be cranks and ideologues who mistake their lectern for a pulpit. Examination of a typical American school district in […]
Victor Davis Hanson: Over the last three decades, elite American universities have engaged in economic, political, social, and cultural practices that were often unethical, illegal—and suicidal. They did so with impunity. Apparently, confident administrators assumed that the brand of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and other elite universities was so precious to the nation’s elite movers […]
By Becky Jacobs More than 20 years ago, Blue Cross and Blue Shield United of Wisconsin gifted more than $300 million to each of Wisconsin’s medical schools to improve public health. In the years since, however, Wisconsin has fallen in national health rankings, and the state continues to struggle with racial disparities in low birth […]
Quinton Klabon Wisconsin predicts -69,053 fewer grade-school-age children (5 to 14) from 2020 to 2030, -9.4%. They predict -106,513 fewer from 2020 to 2050, -14.5%. The first 2 images are population loss by count. The second 2 are population loss by percentage. —— more. Madison’s 2024 tax & $pending increase referendum choose life
Kenjiro Takahashi: The number of births of Japanese children in the first half of 2024 has continued its alarming downward trend, with only 329,998 babies born between January and June. If this pace continues, the country’s annual birth count will fall below 700,000 for the first time since 1947, when comparative statistics became available. On […]
Michael Alcorn & Leslie Stratford: Instead, union representatives negotiated over things like “pronoun pins,” which the company already provides. They demanded that Trader Joe’s cover abortion and “gender-affirming care.” The company’s response: The health plan already covers that. Either the union negotiators were embarrassingly uninformed, or they were playing a political game with workers as […]
Madeleine Kearns: On October 4, Emma, who asked not to be named, got a letter from the Scottish government. Addressed “Dear Resident,” its purpose was to alert her that her home, due to its proximity to the hospital, is now in an abortion censorship zone. This is due to the UK’s brand-new “Safe Access” law, which came […]
Nicholas Eberstadt: With birthrates plummeting, more and more societies are heading into an era of pervasive and indefinite depopulation, one that will eventually encompass the whole planet. What lies ahead is a world made up of shrinking and aging societies. Net mortality—when a society experiences more deaths than births—will likewise become the new norm. Driven […]
Stephen J. Choi and Mitu Gulati: Donald J. Trump’s presidency broke the mold in many ways, including how to think about judicial appointments. Unlike other recent presidents, Trump was open about how “his” judges could be depended on to rule in particular ways on key issues important to voters he was courting (e.g., on issues such as […]
Wall Street Journal: Kamala Harris is still keeping most of her agenda incognito, but she gave a strong hint about its direction on Tuesday when she blessed the Democratic plan to blow up the Senate’s filibuster rule. This would turn the Senate into the House for the purposes of passing legislation, which means a wide […]
Bezos Washington Post To have children or not to have them? That is the question more and more Americans are asking themselves. Only 26 percent say having children is extremely or very important for a fulfilling life, according to a Pew Research Center survey, whereas 71 percent say the same about “having a job or career they […]
Peachy Keenan: What if the best way to change her mind was not by focusing on votes, elections, candidates, the legality of a 6- or 8-week ban, or technicalities like viability? What if instead of “abortions are bad,” the argument was: “Babies are awesome!” Imagine connecting the clinical concept of “embryo” and “fetus” to “a little […]
Liyan Qi: Ricki Mudd was born in 1993 in China during the one-child policy era. She remembers her early childhood only in fragments, but has been told she had spent some of it hidden in a bag. At age 5, she was adopted from a Chinese orphanage, one of the more than 150,000 children China […]
Frank Newport and Joy Wilke: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that the U.S. general fertility rate reached an all-time low in 2011, at 63.2 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. The fertility rate has dropped 11% from 1990, when there were 70.9 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. The […]
Emma Jacobs: —— Choose life!
Wall Street Journal: The story’s theme is that in three cases last term the Chief steered the Court to help Donald Trump: “How Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak.” It is slanted in the way readers have come to expect from the Times, minimizing the constitutional arguments in the cases and highlighting the political […]
Jonathan Adler: A new paper by Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati, “How Different Are the Trump Judges?” seeks to evaluate the quality of Trump’s judicial appointments as compared to their colleagues on the bench. It produces some interesting results. Here’s the abstract. Donald J. Trump’s presidency broke the mold in many ways, including how to think about […]
Glenn Reynolds Last week the Democrats showed us the past and the future of population policy. Even as they cheered news that a Planned Parenthood mobile van would park right outside their national convention to choke off pregnancies with free abortions and vasectomies, nominee Kamala Harris announced a half-baked proposal to encourage childbearing via tax credits for new parents. The […]
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Matt Lamb The Chicago Teachers Union president has a convenient excuse for low test scores in the public school system: The exams are “rooted in white supremacy.” “The way in which, you know, we think about learning and think about achievement is really and truly based on testing, which at best is junk science rooted in white supremacy,” Stacy Davis […]
Sara R. Shaw, Robert Rauh, Jeff Schmidt, Jason Stein and Rob Henken: We can show that by looking at the overall operating funds available to the district from local, state, and federal sources. Using a metric developed for the Forum’s School DataTool, we found that MPS had operating spending in the 2022 school year of […]
Leo Lewis in Tokyo and Wang Xueqiao and Thomas Hale in Shanghai In the US, which is by far the world’s largest pet market, there are more pets than children of any age. The American Veterinary Medical Association estimates there were 84mn-89mn dogs and 60mn-62mn cats in 2020. Government data shows there were 73mn children […]
Arash Abizadeh If you’ve ever read an academic article, the chances are that you were unwittingly paying tribute to a vast profit-generating machine that exploits the free labour of researchers and siphons off public funds. The annual revenues of the “big five” commercial publishers – Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE – […]
John Johnson: Many things affect a school (or district’s) enrollment, but the most important is simply how many children live there. In Milwaukee, recent birth trends point to a future of dwindling class sizes, beginning in elementary school and working their way up through the higher grades. Absent a spike in the birth rate or […]
Wispolitics: Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt announced the university’s Fox Cities campus will close in June 2025 due to low enrollment — the sixth two-year campus in two years to either end in-person instruction or shut completely. Leavitt confirmed the news Thursday after Outagamie County Exec Tom Nelson blasted him and UW President Jay Rothman for […]
Jay Caspian Kang A new book by Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman, “What Are Children For?,” is an engaging, literary investigation into why so many highly educated, financially comfortable women in the United States are ambivalent about having children, and how we should actually think about that decision. (I recently interviewed the authors on a podcast […]
Kate Roberson: An academic journal has reversed course and rejected an article about abortion that it initially accepted, citing concerns about the author being a “white” “male,” according to an email from the editor obtained by The College Fix. The article “Abortion Restrictions are Good for Black Women” by philosopher Perry Hendricks initially was accepted for […]