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  Share Source: AP Photo/Seth Wenig Earlier this week, columnist Kurt Schlichter had a piece out there, "Conservatives Need To Get It On." He has a point. The CDC just released figures which show that birth rates are down. According to the report: The provisional number of births for the United States in 2020 was 3,605,201, down 4% from the number in 2019 (3,747,540) (Tables 1–3 and Figure 1). This is the sixth consecutive year that the number of births has declined after an increase in 20...

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Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. "The View" co-host Meghan McCain took to Twitter on Wednesday to lash out at British Vogue’s viral story this week that questioned the environmental consequences of having a baby in the year 2021. "NOT TODAY SATAN!" McCain tweeted. Vogue writer Nell Frizzell framed her piece around concerns she had before birthing her own child. "Whether your body throbs to reproduce, you passively believe that it is on the cards...

Corporations like to make statements about their responsibility to society, but follow-through is sometimes lacking. The Erb Institute-a partnership...

Pulling India’s democracy back from the brink Updated: Updated: Suggestions that its democratic credentials have been tarnished merit a serious, thoughtful and respectful response Share Article Suggestions that its democratic credentials have been tarnished merit a serious, thoughtful and respectful response Governments, like the citizens that live under their influence, come in a dizzying array of types, challenging simplistic efforts of classification. In spite of all this variation, what ...

Swedish author and scholar Johan Norberg joins Brian Anderson to discuss his new book Audio Transcript Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. And hello again, if youre watching on the Manhattan Institute to YouTube channel, Im Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Im honored to be joined today by Johan Norberg. Johan joins us from Sweden, hes well-known to an American audience as an author, lecturer, documentary filmmaker. He writes on a numerous range of topics, global...

Recent interceptions linked to the illicit smuggling of migrants at Nicaragua’s border with Costa Rica have illustrated how clandestine groups in the trade continue to operate between both nations, despite coronavirus.

Mark my words: Two or three decades from now, Hollywood’s nostalgia machine will look back on the colossal crapshow that was 2020 and proclaim, “Those were the days.” Picture a coming-of-age television “dramedy” — part drama, part comedy — set amidst the COVID-19-era, the civil unrest of the Black Lives Matter movement and far-right nuttery such as the storming of the United States Capitol. An adolescent boy from a suburban middle-class family will try t...

Nicaraguans who fled the government of Daniel Ortega to request asylum in Costa Rica are requesting support from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for medical attention and employment. The Nicaraguans gave UNHCR a letter with their requests, which include registration in the Costa Rican social security system — which would guarantee them medical care — and identity documents that allow them to obtain employment. “UNHCR received $4.5 million to insure 5,000 or 6,000 asylum seek...

Africa’s New Free Trade Agreement Could Mark the Dawn of a New Era Once it becomes fully implemented, the African Continental Free Trade Area could be the world’s biggest fully-realized free-trade zone by area. Sunday, January 17, 2021 The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came into force on 1 January, 2021. Once it becomes fully implemented and operational by 2030, the AfCFTA could be the world’s biggest fully-realized free-trade zone by area. The bloc has a potential market o...