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...June is LGBTQI+ Pride month. US President Biden has proclaimed it as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Pride Month.... ...New York is hosting not one but eight Pride marches.... ...Glamour UK used a startling image: a pregnant man, Logan Brown.... ...“Everything, all my manlihood that I"ve worked hard for, for so long, just completely felt like it was erased,” Brown told Glamour UK....

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...“Adam is a special child,” says the narrator. “He's the last child born in Italy.”... ...The Economist, an oracle for politicians, journalists, and economists everywhere, has turned bearish on the future of humanity.... ...The prime examples of ageing countries are no longer just Japan and Italy but also include Brazil, Mexico and Thailand.”... ...One of the country"s leading demographers, Alessandro Rosina, says in the film that Italy, with a birth rate of 1.24 (2.1 is necessary to maintain...

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...On Easter Sunday, March 31, 1521, Captain Ferdinand Magellan"s fleet chaplain Father Pedro Valderrama celebrated the first Roman Catholic Mass in... ...Today the Philippines is the only Christian country in East Asia. But in Magellan"s time not everyone was on board to convert.... ...Four decades later Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived from Mexico and established Spanish dominion that endured for over 300 years.... ...What is happening in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan is no secret. They hit that demographic “sweet spot” and kept going....

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...Additionally, on the Human Rights and Rule of Law Index the Islamic Republic of Iran scored 9.8, where 10 is the lowest.... ...Capital and corporal punishment are common and due legal process is not guaranteed.... ...Much of the repression within and outside of Iran is carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), an official paramilitary force... ...The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been accused of committing various human rights abuses within Iran....

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...Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was conveniently well-prepared with his statement that:... ...region of Russian-occupied southern Ukraine.... ...According to Mykhailo Podolyak, one of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky"s most senior advisers, the answer to this question is clear: to thwart... ...Stalin ordered the destruction of a dam across the Dnipro river in 1941 in the face of invading German forces....

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...Florida"s Republican-controlled legislature is not shy of controversy.... ...Last month, the Florida legislature passed two major health bills, one of which established a sweeping right to conscientious objection for doctors... ...Bioethicist Craig Klugman recently said that the “entire purpose of the law is to permit discrimination” and called for a national campaign against... ...Florida has a six-week ban on abortion with limited exceptions. Kenneth W....

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...larger audience by Professor Robert Putnam.... ...As a long-time former editor of Governing magazine, Alan Ehrenhalt is an expert on local political and governance issues in America.... ...Here, Ehrenhalt takes the reader on a tour of Chicago (and by extension, America) by focusing on the lives of the parishioners in St Nicholas of... ...For women – here as elsewhere the more religiously committed of the sexes – there was the Altar and Rosary Society, whose members cleaned the church...

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...According to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of California, Holtville, “sustainable” meat alternatives have... ...Edward Spang.... ...Derrick Risner is another of the UCD food scientists who worked on the study....

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...But the speakers in a March 9 talk put on YouTube by the Center for Humane Technology raises a more fundamental question: what are the chances that... ...before their talk by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.... ...Based on internal evidence, these speakers–Tristan Harris, a co-founder of the Center, and Aza Raskin--are worth listening to....

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...During last year"s Pride Month, UK actor turned politician Laurence Fox, leader of the small anti-woke Reclaim Party and former candidate for London... ...in the Reclaim Party, Martin Daubney, posted the following tweet, recasting Britain"s flag as a mashed-up Nazi swastika too:... ...As if to prove this, one of Fox"s rival metropolitan politicians, Green Party London Assembly Member Caroline Russell, used her position of political... ...Dominique Samuels, showing Pride flags arrayed all down what was actually central London, but looked rather more like some hypothetical gay Nuremberg...