Previous literature has established that lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people are at least as likely to be poor as heterosexual people, standing in cont
There is a profound uptick in antisemitic attacks across the West, both by muslims, and their proxies on the left, and by weak organizations that cave to both. The larger threat to democracies of course, are where august organizations submit to demands or threats by muslim groups, and cancel...
the ability to choose how many children to have and when to have them gets taken away. Something that's easier in less democratic settings. And not good news here either. Twenty years ago, almost all of our aging countries weredemocracies. Now, a quarter of them, those with median ages...
The aggregate household saving rate has declined in many nations since the 1980s, partly due to increased borrowing. To explain this puzzling trend, previous scholarship has focused on precarity, welfare state retrenchment, and financial development. Building on research describing marriage’s significanc...
“countries where individuals have the right to vote in elections, but where incumbents make it difficult for the opposition to organize are not generally considered democracies”), (3) governmental autonomy from other forces (“such as powerful military elites”) that can halt or wholly subvert ...
one of the world's busiest waterways was as flat and silent as a woodland pond. The Government decreed a six-month jail term for any citizen Turk who did not spend the day at home. All in all, the country today looked like a land on which a neutron bomb had been dropped. Devastating...
In looking at these sets of figures, something perplexes. Many of the worries about population growth are expressed by people in Western liberal democracies, such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, among others. Yet none of these countries show up either in the list of booming...
to reflect Canada’s context of democratic government and high-income economy most closely. This limits the findings of this review to other high-income democracies, and results may not necessarily apply to low- or middle-income countries. Structural racism continues to impact health inequities in ...
in short runs of DNA bases (oligonucleotides). The dispute between a small network of historians and a large network of geneticists can be understood in the context of national politics. Contrasts are drawn between democracies, where capturing the narrative makes reversal difficult, and dictatorships...
The Alaskan Permanent Fund Dividend is paid to all Alaskan residents, not simply to parents, but its impact on parents is analogous to the impact a child allowance might have. In the Baby’s First Year study, where 1000 American mothers were given monthly stipends of either $333 or $20 ...