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How Big Agriculture Damages Local Communities 0
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 10, 2024
If you drive through most rural areas in our country, you’re likely to see some old, abandoned farmsteads, lying broken like great bones in the mottled landscape. The houses are grayed and weathered, with shattered windows that give way only to darkness, the whole structure leaning out of kilter as though setting itself against a
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Don’t Trust Your Doctor? Post-COVID, Over Half of Americans Don’t 1
- Science, Featured, MomThink
- September 10, 2024
In April 2020, 72 percent of Americans trusted physicians and hospitals. That number fell to just 40 percent by January of 2024. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame. After years of lockdowns and mandates, less than half of Americans trust their medical system.
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The Great Awakening: A Mother’s Journey Through Pediatric Care 4
- Family, Featured, MomThink, Science
- September 9, 2024
As a mother, I’ve always tried to do what’s best for my children. I trusted our pediatrician implicitly, believing that his advice was rooted in unquestionable medical expertise. However, the events of 2020 forced me to confront some uncomfortable truths about the medical care my children had been receiving. For years, I accepted without question
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This Is Not Fake News: US Surgeon General Warns That Parenting Is a Health Hazard 2
- Family, MomThink
- September 9, 2024
The US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy, just issued an official advisory warning against the stressful nature of parenting and labelling it “an urgent public health issue.” The document says Surgeon General Advisories “require the nation’s immediate awareness and action.” So, according to the Surgeon General, what exactly is the urgent issue and what immediate actions should be
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‘If the Devil Can’t Make You Bad, He’ll Make You Busy’1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink
- September 6, 2024
The noon sun beamed high in the sky as I began warming up my daughter’s team in the outfield grass. It was the start of another 12U softball Saturday in the Chicago suburbs. As I lined up the girls, I watched our head coach pull up in his minivan about 15 minutes late for warm-ups.
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Why We Shouldn’t Abandon Our Institutions 1
- Culture, Featured, MomThink, Politics
- September 5, 2024
I recently was invited to attend an event hosted by my alma mater—a college that is outspokenly conservative and so generally attracts young conservatives and libertarians—in order to speak to incoming college freshmen about their transition into higher education. While sharing my experience about how my liberal arts education set me up for professional success
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