Key Texas legislators say they intend to pass a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The move would add some big-state momentum to a trend started by Louisiana last year with a law that is blocked in court but has other states looking at similar proposals. (Schneider, NPR)
Read MoreStore owners from Iowa to Oregon to Florida expressed frustration at the policy change to CNN, saying the option to close on Sundays was a deciding factor in choosing to invest in the franchise. Many of them had poured out their own savings into opening the bakeries. (Maruf, CNN)
Read MoreMany DEI programs are sputtering or dying, and the anti-DEI movement is ascendant. Some people, especially but not limited to those on the right, have long viewed contemporary efforts to strengthen DEI practices as performative, meddlesome, or ineffective. (Hendrickson, The Atlantic)
Read MoreRoughly equal shares of U.S. men and women say they’re often lonely; women are more likely to reach out to a wider network for emotional support (Goddard & Parker, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreApart from handfasting ceremonies, in which the bride and groom’s hands are bound with a cord to symbolize the union of their souls physically and spiritually, Ms. McMullen-King said most of the weddings she officiates don’t look particularly out of the ordinary. But appearances are rarely the point at weddings that invoke the cosmos. (LaGorce, The New York Times)
Read MoreIn statehouses across the country, lawmakers this year will consider bills that, if widely adopted, could chart a new course for how Americans approach end-of-life decisions by giving terminally ill patients a legal means of choosing how and when they die. (Bellware, The Washington Post)
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