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  • Americans Are Renouncing U.S. Citizenship in Record Numbers

    Americans Are Renouncing U.S. Citizenship in Record Numbers0

    President Trump hosted a televised naturalization ceremony at the White House, aired during the Republication National Convention. “You’ve earned the most prized, treasured, cherished, and priceless possession anywhere in the world,” he told the five new United States citizens. “It’s called American citizenship.” Prized? Perhaps. But maybe not priceless. A record number of Americans are

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  • Americans Are Rapidly Warming Up to Porn, a New Gallup Poll Shows. Here’s Why.

    Americans Are Rapidly Warming Up to Porn, a New Gallup Poll Shows. Here’s Why.0

    According to a new Gallup poll, 43 percent of Americans now see pornography as “morally acceptable.” This is a 7-point increase from the previous year and a 13-point increase since 2011, the year Gallup first began measuring public perceptions of porn. Gallup says the change corresponds with a larger shift in morals that began in

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  • Americans Are Misinformed on COVID Data, Survey Shows

    Americans Are Misinformed on COVID Data, Survey Shows0

    A recent survey found that more than one-third of Americans overestimate by as much as a factor of ten the probability a person with COVID-19 will require hospitalization. Researchers involved in the Franklin Templeton/Gallup study asked Americans in December what “percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized.” The

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  • Americans Are Living in Denial on a Great Many Things

    Americans Are Living in Denial on a Great Many Things0

    Gallup released a poll this week showing that Americans are, on average, getting heavier. Oddly, at the same time, the percentage of people who say they believe they are overweight is declining, as are the percentage of people who say they are trying to lose weight or want to lose weight. The results are probably

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  • Americans Are Increasingly Revealing Their Self-absorption in Their Clothing

    Americans Are Increasingly Revealing Their Self-absorption in Their Clothing0

    Yesterday afternoon an email from an Intellectual Takeout reader arrived in my inbox, asking what I thought of the jacket Melania Trump wore to visit migrant children near the Mexican border. Having read a previous article I wrote on Melania’s fashion choices, this reader asked if I could weigh in with some thoughts. Pulling up

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  • Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever, Sociologist Says

    Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever, Sociologist Says0

    Why are young adults turning out on the streets more, raging against unwelcome guest speakers on their campuses more? Why are they parading Nazi emblems or smashing statues of yesterday’s heroes? What are they not doing that gives them so much time and energy to burn? Sex. In America, anyway, they are not doing sex. According to

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