Plus: Bad Therapy, The “Cult-Like” Mentality of Transgender Ideology in Education & More                                                            

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🎬 LAUNCHING FRIDAY: Episode 1 of Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Keep your eyes peeled for the release of IWF’s new, revolutionary documentary series, Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Male Takeover of Female Prisons. In the gripping first episode, a former California inmate opens up about her traumatic experience of being forced without her consent to live in a small cell with a male inmate.

Her story is, unfortunately, becoming a reality for more and more convicted women who are left defenseless against dangerous men—including violent sexual predators—gaining access to women's prisons.

IWF is committed to telling the stories of female inmates and whistleblowers from the correctional world and giving them a voice and a platform to shine a light on the neglect and abuse women face under policies that blatantly harm women to favor men.
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** Trending Now: Sacre Bleu! American and French Bureaucrats Support Private Schools, but Only for Their Kids Read ([link removed])
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** Military Recruitment Crisis: What if It *Is* The Product? ([link removed])
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Any phenomenon manifesting in a large, complex, multipart institution whose dynamics are downwind of society at large is bound to have not just one cause, but many. Current institutional case in point: the U.S. Armed Forces and the military recruitment crisis. For the two-plus years that the military’s branches (outside of the U.S. Marines) have faced a significant (Navy) to severe (Army) shortage of incoming recruits, analysts have invoked many now-familiar arguments for the causes why. Read More ([link removed])
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She Thinks | Lydia Smith on the “Cult-Like” Mentality of Transgender Ideology in Education Listen ([link removed])

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** Fact Check: Is Critical Race Theory Taught in K-12 Schools? ([link removed])
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Scores of evidence show that many K-12 schools are teaching critical race theory and lessons inspired by CRT. A quick look at Parents Defending Education’s Indoctrination Map reveals that Crockett’s home state of Texas has 48 reported incidents in which critical race theory and equity are taught in public schools. Read More ([link removed])


** Spotlight: Independent Women’s Forum’s Center for Energy and Conservation Celebrates First Anniversary Read ([link removed])
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** #IWRreads With Abigail Shrier – Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up ([link removed])
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Abigail Shrier will join #IWReads on Thursday, March 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET for a deep dive into her new book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up.

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. What’s gone wrong with America’s youth?

In Bad Therapy, bestselling investigative journalist Abigail Shrier argues that the problem isn’t the kids—it’s the mental health experts. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with child psychologists, parents, teachers, and young people, Shrier explores the ways the mental health industry has transformed the way we teach, treat, discipline, and even talk to our kids.
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** Two Truths and a Lie: Rent Control ([link removed])
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Can you identify which of the following is NOT true about rent control?

A. Rent control reduces the quality of rent-controlled units.
B. Rent control lessens inequities by protecting poor and disadvantaged individuals from exploitation.
C. Rent control shrinks the supply of rental housing.
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** Just In: Detransitioners Sue Rhode Island Medical Provider and Persistent Public School Agitator Read ([link removed])
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** Biden’s New Rule on Independent Contractors Wages War on Workers, Women and Entrepreneurs ([link removed])
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With its recent rule restricting the classification of independent contractors, the Biden administration has made it clear: It wants to wage war on workers – and is willing for women to be the collateral damage. In the past year alone, 64 million Americans freelanced, half of whom were women.
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** Plastic Bag Bans Led To Increased Plastic Use in CA, NJ ([link removed])
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Banning single-use plastic bags, like those used for carrying groceries, was in vogue in the 2010s and 2020s. A closer look at California and New Jersey’s plastic bag bans, however, suggests that the amount of plastic discarded per person increased after the bans went into effect. The authors of “Plastic Bag Bans Work” put it best: “A plastic bag ban that allows the weight of plastic bags discarded to increase, let alone establish a new peak level of plastic bag waste, cannot be considered a complete success.”
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