Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Here's why the West feels increasingly unstable

Mexico‘s fertility rate – 1.2 babies per woman– is now well below replacement and the US rate.

Crackpot Greta Thunberg says Ed Sheeran should be “held accountable for his lack of spine;” despite the singer calling the Gaza war “disproportionate.”

The best geographic predictor of educational attainment in Africa is proximity of a child to a Catholic mission

Japan’s fertility rate is 1.15 children per woman. Washington, DC’s is even lower at 1.11.

 

The Literary World’s D.E.I. Checklist

The New York Times reports:

Bluntly, the National Book Award has become a D.E.I. checklist: Only authors with preferred identities, preferred topics and preferred politics stand any realistic chance of winning.
Much the same goes for the Pulitzer Prizes. Of the past 10 years’ worth of winners for music and drama, nearly all have been minorities. Whether or not the winners are themselves minorities, they almost invariably win for work about minorities. For the prize in history, Kathleen DuVal won in 2025 for her history of Native American nations; Jacqueline Jones in 2024 for her account of Black workers in Boston during the Civil War; Jefferson Cowie in 2023 for his examination of white supremacy in an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries; W. Caleb McDaniel in 2020 for his story of a former slave’s fight for justice in post-Civil War America; David Blight in 2019 for his biography of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

An article worth your time. Another reason white males can't get hired. 

The top megadonors who’ve pumped more than $1.7 billion into the midterms.

Millions of California homeowners to be hit with higher costs under new law

City’s largest overnight shelter closes after just one year in NW Portland

People are talking less every year, but no one’s quite sure why

Nobel Prize Winners: What They Said Then and Now....

‘Looksmaxxing’ Influencer Clavicular Charged With Rape and Drugging Minor

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday declined for now to suspend the law license of Hannah Dugan, a former state judge who was convicted of obstructing a planned immigration arrest outside her courtroom in 2025.

Tatiana Maslany disses Tom Selleck For Not Being Political

Muslim student from Afghanistan attacked a pastor for talking about Jesus and praying for another student at George Mason University

Jason Arday, Part Two, or Deux.

Mark Ruffalo tears into Gavin Newsom in furious reaction to latest twist in Paramount saga

$60 for rye bread!? SoHo bakery has New Yorkers lining up for a taste

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to charge American more depending on how large their vehicles are

Liberal woman fired by KPMG for calling a Jewish man a “Zionist pig” claims she is the VICTIM of a “coordinated” hate campaign. “In the mainstream news they tried to depict me as a crazy liberal that approached him…I have lost my livelihood.”

67 years ago , ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single.

For the majority of American history, new immigrants were required to assimilate into American culture.

Seattle Mayor Calls For New Gun Laws While Letting Repeat Offenders Roam Free

Only 43% of Democrats say it would be a bad thing if Trump was assassinated.

'The View' host Sunny Hostin claims her children experienced racism at 'predominantly white' private schools

Husband of 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones claims she belongs next to MLK as civil-rights icon — then bizarrely appears to contradict her.

 

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