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UK parliament votes for assisted dying paving way for historic law change

UK Politics · United Kingdom

UK parliament votes for assisted dying paving way for historic law change

45% Center coverage: 255 sources

U.K. lawmakers on Friday backed a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law. Members of Parliament voted 314-291 to back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill following an impassioned and respectful debate.See the Story

What US Adults Think About Pope Leo XIV, According to a New AP-NORC Poll

Pope Leo XIV · United States

What US Adults Think About Pope Leo XIV, According to a New AP-NORC Poll

50% Center coverage: 66 sources

Who’s Winning the Trump vs. Newsom Fight? Polling Indicates a Clear Winner

Donald Trump · California

Who’s Winning the Trump vs. Newsom Fight? Polling Indicates a Clear Winner

54% Center coverage: 13 sources

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten said that California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s name has been searched more than “ever before” since the governor has feuded with President Donald Trump over the immigration protests across Los Angeles.See the Story

Pope Leo, Catholic Boomer? - First Things

100% Right coverage: 4 sources

Like Kremlinologists during the Cold War, American Catholics are searching for clues to the character of their new pope. Conservatives take heart that he wore the red mozzetta that Pope Francis had spurned and sings the Regina Caeli in Latin. Progressives hang their hats on his repeated assurances that he will continue efforts toward greater synodality and the fact that he took the name of a pope best known for his social teaching. All this is i…Pope Leo XIV · Rome See the Story

How Emotional Manipulation Causes ChatGPT Psychosis

44% Right coverage: 9 sources

There's a scary new phenomenon called ChatGPT-induced psychosis. The chatbot is causing people to break with reality because it turns our own emotional needs against us.Revolution See the Story

Metabolizing the Beautiful - First Things

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Why Literature Still Matters:Beauty After the Apocalypseby jason m. baxtercassiodorus, 82 pages, $16 My father, a mild-mannered physician then in his forties, used to become positively explosive on Sunday afternoons. We could be home from church, through with lunch, and watching the ’90s-era Dallas Cowboys. As the ball hung in the air between Troy Aikman in the backfield and the careening receiver, Michael Irvin, Dad would involuntarily leap to …United States · United States Read Article

The Future of Reading - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

More is read now in a year than was read before in a hundred years.” So declared Lectura Popular, a Catholic publication aimed at the working classes of Chile, in September 1889. Such was the public’s appetite for written materials, the magazine warned, that “readings are devoured and that is why people become sick.” Peasants moving to the cities were adapting their traditional forms of poetry, orally transmitted for generations, to cover politi…Catholic Church · Santiago Read Article

Classical Renewal by Research - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

The research pursued these days in university humanities departments does not, as a rule, enjoy high esteem among those who value the West’s traditional forms of education. For decades, critics of the university have been reporting the titles of courses, funded research, and conference papers, with a mixture of ridicule and outrage, to illustrate the capture of academe by political activists. Attendees of the Modern Language Association conventi…United States · United States Read Article

The Death of Mass Literacy - First Things

100% Right coverage: 1 sources

In this episode, Wessie du Toit joins Rusty Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “The Future of Reading” from the June/July 2025 issue of the magazine. The conversation is embedded below. For your long-term convenience, follow us on SoundCloud or subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The post The Death of Mass Literacy appeared first on First Things.Read Article

The Terrible Fate of John Milton - Washington Examiner

100% Right coverage: 2 sources

Is there a book more widely loved than Paradise Lost by an author more universally disliked than John Milton? Catholics dislike Milton for his anti-Catholicism, Anglicans dislike him for his nonconformity, monarchs dislike him for his republicanism, republicans dislike him for his religiosity, and feminists dislike him for his supposed misogyny. Samuel Johnson captured the See the Story

Creating U.S. Catholicism - First Things

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The World and Work of Father John J. Burke:A Mystic in Actionby douglas j. slawsonst. augustine’s, 600 pages, $36 In 1928, Undersecretary of State William R. Castle Jr. wrote about “by far the most important Roman Catholic in this country”: “Obviously a man of great power and authority,” he was “very sure of himself.” Castle’s successor, Sumner Welles, observed of this man that, “in addition to all of his other rare and fine qualities, he was a …Catholic Church · United States See the Story

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