Is having children really cost-prohibitive?

November 14, 2025

Is having children really cost-prohibitive?

The Pew Research Center published a new report last week on the cohort affectionately known as “DINKs,” which stands for “dual income, no kids.” Pew’s analysis defined DINKs as having at least one spouse in their 30s or 40s, two incomes, and no children. DINKs account for 12% of married couples in the United States, a percentage […]

Trump should reject Serbia sanctions waiver request

Serbia and Russia are lobbying frantically for a reprieve from U.S. sanctions on Serbia’s oil and gas company, NIS, which Washington targeted due to its majority Russian ownership. Belgrade and Moscow intend to send the U.S. Treasury Department a letter asking for an exemption, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Monday. Days earlier, Belgrade adopted legislation removing legal roadblocks […]

Georgia sinks further into authoritarianism and Russia’s orbit

The country of Georgia deepened its authoritarian turn last week after charging eight opposition figures with “sabotage,” “calling for the overthrow of the government,” and “helping a foreign country in hostile activities,” a reference to links with the United States. Many of the country’s politicians, along with roughly 70 other opponents of its government, are already […]

Margaret Atwood is the Left’s latest fake martyr

Western liberalism is evidently so free of real hardship that its otherwise comfortably spoiled adherents will fake martyrdom just to seem interesting. See: Stephen Colbert, whose cross to bear is that CBS will no longer pay him an estimated $15 million per year to host a failing show. See also author Margaret Atwood, whose book, […]

Newsom caves on illegal immigrant drivers licenses

Another month, another instance of California walking back a dangerous or destructive policy while smugly trying to assert some sort of moral superiority over the policy’s critics. California has revoked 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses for nondomiciled immigrants (immigrants who are legally in the country but are not citizens or permanent residents). This comes after Transportation […]

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Weak Starmer waltzes into a winter of discontent

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his center-left/left Labour Party government are under great pressure. You’d think that Starmer’s catastrophic approval rating (17% positive to 66% negative), the state of the U.K. economy (only 1.3% growth is expected in 2025, inflation is at nearly 4%, and unemployment is rising), and the soaring popularity of Nigel […]

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