Archive for May 2025

In 1987, the year of the first American Catholic Laity survey, nearly half of American Catholics said that faith was “the most” or “among the most” important parts of their life. Now, only 37% say the same. Others are leaving the Catholic Church completely. The General Social Survey, a national survey conducted every year or two since the 1970s, asks people about the faith they grew up with, as well as their present religious identity. According to our analysis of its data, in 1973 only 10% of Americans who grew up Catholic had changed religions, and another 7% had left religion altogether. By 2018, each of those percentages had increased to 18%.

Sexually diverse identity was associated with depression, anxiety, and stress, but only stress was in turn associated with riskier cannabis use.

The tentative deal announced Sunday covers nearly 2,400 Kaiser mental health therapists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and psychologists represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers.

In 2022, prolonged grief disorder was added to a text revision of the fifth Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), a guidebook referenced by clinicians around the world. Too much grief had become an official diagnosis. The idea of prolonged grief came about in the 1990s and has sparked controversy among experts since.

Bisignano (above) “is a Wall Street CEO with a long history of slashing the companies he runs to the bone, including massive layoffs,” she noted. “He is also a liar. He claims he was not involved in all the chaotic and destructive changes at the Social Security Administration: the hollowing out of the agency, the stealing of our most sensitive data, the harmful and poorly rolled out policy changes, their sudden reversals, and more. However, there are well over a dozen long-serving civil servants, identified by a brave whistleblower, who can validate that he is lying.”

A harsh, right-wing authoritarianism is rising, casting a shadow of unfreedom as classic conservatism fades.