In the news, Thursday, October 17, 2019

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from The Guardian (UK)

Americans becoming less Christian as over a quarter follow no religion
The United States is becoming a less Christian country, and the decline in religious affiliation is particularly rapid among younger Americans, new figures show. The proportion of US adults who describe themselves as Christian has fallen to two-thirds, a drop of 12 percentage points over the past decade, according to data from the Pew Research Center. Over the same period, the proportion of those describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has risen by 17 percentage points to more than a quarter of the adult population.

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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS,  MIXED  American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C.

The Window Is Closing for a Negotiated North Korean Denuclearization
After the collapse of denuclearization talks in Stockholm, it is clear that North Korea maintains the strategic objective of holding on to its nuclear arsenal. The U.S. should continue diplomatic attempts to reduce the North Korean nuclear threat, but should avoid the temptation to accept a weak, flawed agreement. Washington should insist that the regime agree to a detailed roadmap to denuclearization, while increasing pressure on North Korea until it demonstrates progress.

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from HumanProgress.org  Education Website

How Work Got Good: Safer, More Interesting, More Intense
Overall, jobs have become safer, more interesting—and more intense.

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from National Review  RIGHT BIAS

Is America Becoming Sinicized?
A little over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976. The results of Deng’s revolution astonished the world. In four decades, China went from a backward basket case to the second-largest economy on the planet. It lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese into the global middle class. If in the past Chinese Communism impoverished its own citizens but left the world mostly alone, now it has enriched more than a billion people at home and terrified six billion abroad. Far from a newly rich China becoming Westernized politically, the West and the rest of the world are more likely to become politically repressive like China.

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from The Spokesman-Review

Newspaper in Spokane, Washington

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