BIZARRE: 12 | Mind Blowing Facts

Climate change is affecting wildlife migration patterns in Idaho, new report shows

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trust shows climate change, along with other human-caused factors, is altering wildlife migration patterns in Idaho and across the West, leading to less healthy animals and population declines.

Tribune News Service · Nov 9, 2022

Michigan GOP: Ban books on divorce

It's a ludicrous idea that reflects the real Republican plan: Education is about social control, not learning

Salon · Oct 28, 2022

Citizens' social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation

In early October, the Pew Research Center released a report called “The Role of Alternative Social Media in the News and Information Environment.” While the report is well-researched and reveals a great deal about the current state of digital media, news and right-wing propaganda, it is wrong about alternative social…

The Conversation · Oct 25, 2022

America's Christian majority could end by 2070

Christians could fall below 50% of the U.S. population by 2070 if recent trends continue.

Axios · Sep 21, 2022

State, federal red tape hampers opioid treatment

A new Pew analysis found that both state and federal regulations make access to opioid treatment burdensome.

Axios · Sep 20, 2022

As meth overdoses spike in N.J. and Pa., advocates call for better treatment for people who use stimulants

Overdose deaths involving methamphetamine have increased sharply in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where a sevenfold rise in death rates between 2015 and 2019 was the highest in the country, a recent analysis from the Pew Charitable Trust found.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Sep 17, 2022

America's Christian majority is on track to end

A new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades.

WEKU · Sep 17, 2022

Editorial: A national 15-week abortion ban would be a nightmare. Voters can make sure it doesn’t come true

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, striking down a constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion and directing decisions on abortion to be made by the states, Republican lawmakers hailed that approach. But no one — neither abortion rights supporters nor abortion opponents — expected GOP members of…

Los Angeles Times · Sep 17, 2022

Christians in the US could be a minority group by 2070, study finds

All four of the Pew Research Center’s scenarios showed the Christian share of the population shrinking and the number of nonbelievers rising

The Guardian - US · Sep 15, 2022

Both Left and Right Are Converging on Authoritarianism

The problem with American politics isn't polarization—it's rising illiberalism.

Reason · Sep 13, 2022