According to data from the World Health Organization (specifically the global estimates and regional mortality data outlined on page 12 of Suicide worldwide in 2021: global health estimates ), male suicide rates are significantly higher than female suicide rates globally: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240110069 The United Nations has dedicated entities and frameworks for specific…
Since 1952, noncitizens already in the United States have been able to apply for lawful permanent residence without leaving, through what is known as " adjustment of status" under 8 U.S.C. § 1255. Congress amended the provision repeatedly after that, including in 1958, 1960, the Immigration Act of 1990, and § 245(i) in 1994. On May 21, 2026, USCIS issued Policy Memorandum PM-602-0199, directing…
Dr Anthony Fauci was recently subpoenaed by the US Senate to answer questions regarding the origin of Sars-Cov-2. This NPR article notes that he repeatedly invoked the Fifth amendment to decline to answer questions. Rand Paul, who has repeatedly sparred with Fauci (see another NPR article ) on the subject, said that he would as a result push to hold Fauci in contempt of congress. Reuters reports…
I see a lot of posts along the lines of “X politician claims to be independent but actually votes with Y party 90% of the time” Where can I find the information that they are getting these statistics from? I’d love to run the numbers myself. submitted by /u/PatchyWhiskers [link] [comments]
In 1979 President Jimmy Carter officially recognized the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate government of China . This was a hard pivot from the previous US foreign policy position that the Republic of China (Taiwan) was the sole legitimate government What did the United States gain (financially, trade-wise, militarily, geopolitically, etc) from this major shift in foreign policy?…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 30, 2026 in Trump v. Barbara that children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented or on temporary visas are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment, rejecting an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office that sought to condition citizenship on parental status. The 6-3 majority opinion, written by Chief…
Legal gender recognition, the administrative or judicial process by which a person changes the sex or gender marker on official documents, is one of seven categories tracked in ILGA-Europe's annual Rainbow Map , which scores 49 European countries on LGBTI-related law and policy each year. The map and its accompanying annual review record both new protections and new restrictions, including cases…
Black college graduates have consistently faced higher unemployment rates than their white counterparts at equivalent education levels. Bureau of Labor Statistics data has documented this gap across economic cycles; the differential persists in strong labor markets and widens in downturns. As of April 2026, the Black unemployment rate stood at 7.3 percent , compared to 3.7 percent for white…
U.S. foreign assistance is commonly discussed as money sent to foreign governments, but the authorization-to-disbursement pipeline is considerably more layered than that framing suggests. Congress appropriates foreign aid funds through the annual State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill, after which agencies including USAID , the State Department , the Department of Defense , and roughly a…
On December 5, 1996, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan delivered a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in which he asked whether "irrational exuberance" had "unduly escalated asset values," a remark widely interpreted as a warning that equity markets were overvalued. At the time of the speech, the S&P 500 carried a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.8 ; by the end of 1999, that ratio had…
