Tag: Social Issues

ANALYSIS: Why Its Transgender Ad Campaign Could Be Bad News for Bud Light

Despite mockery from some mainstream media outlets about the conservative-led backlash to Bud Light’s recent ad campaign featuring a transgender influencer, it appears that Americans broadly support such measures. A poll released Tuesday found that some 54 percent of all Americans strongly support or somewhat support a boycott of Anheuser-Busch. Only 30 percent strongly oppose…


ANALYSIS: Why Transgender Ad Campaign Could Be Bad News for Bud Light

Despite mockery from some mainstream media outlets about the conservative-led backlash to Bud Light’s recent ad campaign featuring a transgender influencer, it appears that Americans broadly support such measures. A poll released Tuesday found that some 54 percent of all Americans strongly support or somewhat support a boycott of Anheuser-Busch. Only 30 percent strongly oppose…


New York Attorney General Hosting Gun-Buyback Event

New York attorney general Letitia James is hosting a gun-buyback event in late April with the stated aim of protecting New Yorkers from gun violence while the country sees a population shift away from gun control states. The first-ever statewide community gun buyback in New York will be held on Saturday, April 29, according to…


India Surpasses China as World’s Most Populous Country

India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country, according to the United Nations. The Indian population rose to 1.428 billion, 3 million more than the 1.425 billion in China, according to data from the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) “State of World Population Report, 2023” on April 19. India and China will now…


IN-DEPTH: Experts Link Transgender Ideology to Elevated Risk of Violent Radicalization

Ideology currently permeating the political movement around gender and transgenderism drives its adherents into psychological corners and makes them susceptible to radicalization, according to several experts on radical movements and religious extremism. The ideology imparts a simplistic, polarizing worldview that traps its victims in paranoia and rage, they said. The issue has come to the…


At Least 29 Dead in Beijing Hospital Fire, Mostly Patients

BEIJING—The death toll from a fire at a Beijing hospital rose to 29, including 26 patients, authorities said Wednesday, and a dozen people had been detained including the hospital’s head and her deputy. The fire broke out at the private Changfeng Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and forced dozens of people to evacuate. Some who were…


IN-DEPTH: Can Budweiser’s New Pro-America Ad Fix Transgender Controversy? Beer Drinkers Doubt It

CAMPE VERDE, Ariz.—The idyllic setting is the American heartland as the morning sun peeks above a misty golden wheat field when suddenly, a lone Clydesdale comes galloping in—bold, majestic, exuding strength and determination. The narrator for the new Budweiser beer commercial is a middle-aged male, his voice gritty and self-assured. “Let me tell you a story…


New District To Find Last-Minute Disney Deal Illegal, Source Says

The Disney Company’s last-minute deal to retain control of Disney World’s special district is legally flawed for multiple reasons and will probably be voided, a source close to the deal’s investigation said. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has already launched a state investigation into the February deal—one made less than three weeks before the state took…


Biden Says He Will Veto Bill Protecting Female Sports

The Biden administration has announced that the president will veto the H.R. 734 bill that seeks to protect female sports from transgender athletes. H.R. 734, also known as “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” was introduced by Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) and is expected to come to vote in the House this…


Defrocked Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Charged with 1977 Sexual Assault

MADISON, Wis.—Theodore McCarrick, the defrocked cardinal archbishop emeritus of Washington, is charged in Wisconsin with the fourth-degree sexual assault of an 18-year-old man in 1977. McCarrick, 92, of Hyattsville, Md., was charged in a criminal complaint filed on April 14 in Walworth County, about 60 miles southeast of Madison. He is due to make an…