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Transgender Mania Is No. 1 Concern In New Poll Showing Culture Wars Are GOP Voters’ Top Priority

A new poll out Wednesday reveals a major shift in Republican voters’ attitudes, emphasizing “culture war” issues such as the transgender craze instead of the “Old Right” consensus prioritizing taxes and trade. According to an American Compass/YouGov survey of 1,000 Republicans who voted in the 2022 midterms, respondents overwhelmingly emphasized cultural issues as the most

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Leftist ‘Disinformation’ Police Pressure Meta To Run Election Interference On New Threads Platform

A group of left-wing organizations is pressuring Meta to develop a plan to combat so-called election “disinformation” on its recently launched Threads platform. Earlier this month, nearly a dozen Democrat-aligned organizations led by Vote.org — a left-wing “get-out-the-vote” group dedicated to reaching demographics favorable to Democrats — sent a letter asking Meta to “release a

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New York Times Ethicist Counsels Reader To Ignore Obesity

Poetic Justice is an advice column that offers better advice to submissions at other publications whose advice has failed the reader. The Ethicist columnist for the New York Times counseled a reader anxious about a close friend’s weight to ignore the problem altogether. Last week, a reader wrote to the paper’s appointed “ethicist,” Kwame Anthony Appiah

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