The State of the Asian American Middle Class
The share of Asian Americans in the U.S. middle class has held steady since 2010, while the share in the upper-income tier has grown. The post The State of the Asian American Middle Class appeared first on Pew Research Center.
Methodology
The data for the historical analysis in this report is derived from the Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) of the Current Population Survey (CPS), which are conducted in March of every year. The specific files used in this report are from March 1971 to March 2023 and contain data on the annual income of […]
Israel’s Netanyahu government linked to religious group pushing extreme racial doctrine
Netanyahu and Israeli ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and Gantz have links with the influential denomination Chabad-Lubavitch, which promotes alarming messianic goals and an extreme doctrine of racial supremacy.Read More
The Persecution of Donald Trump
Let me lay my cards out on the table: I don’t like Donald Trump. I never have. His faults are legion, and, aside from the significant exception of his Supreme Court picks, I was wholly unimpressed with his first term as president. He’s weak on abortion and gay marriage, he surrounded himself with swamp creatures […]
Pope Francis’ homophobic slur, and the Vatican apology that followed
Pope Francis’ use of a homophobic slur has sparked questions about the limits of his welcoming and inclusive stance towards LGBTQ individuals, despite a swift Vatican apology.
Cardinal Parolin: NATO arms in Russia will lead to ‘uncontrollable escalation’
Answering to journalists’ questions, the Vatican Secretary of State expresses the Holy See’s concerns over a further escalation of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and confirms it is continuing its humanitarian and diplomatic efforts, especially to free Ukrainian children unlawfully held in Russia. Read all
South Africa’s election points to momentous change
Partial results from Wednesday’s election put South Africa on the brink of a new era. Read all
Leaving Evangelicalism
Leaving Evangelicalism Evangelicals are hypocrites. How many times have we heard that critique since 2016? “Character matters,” except when it comes to the bloc’s preferred candidate. The movement claims Christ—and at the same time, allows for white supremacy and sexism. Power is the endgame of piety. In her new book The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and […]
Another Productivity Hack?
Another Productivity Hack? Everyone wants to get things done, but it can be hard to predict how long they’ll take. Mathematicians needed three centuries to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem—first proposed around 1637, the solution only came in 1994. Was that remarkably fast, or pathetically slow? What about rebuilding bridges and highways? Construction timelines often seem […]
Catholic priest in Poland participates in ecumenical ceremony to bless homosexual ‘couples’
Catholic priest Fr. Adam Świeżyński participated in a public ceremony to ‘bless’ homosexual couples in a Protestant church in Warsaw, Poland, earlier this month. The ceremony was reportedly not liturgical to avoid breaching canonical regulations.