Tag: Social Issues


Tribe Demanding Answers, Justice for Member Shot 38 Times by US Border Patrol Agents

WHY, Ariz.—Yvonne Nevarez remembers her late uncle Raymond Mattia as a proud Tohono O’odham Nation member who always took a stand against injustice. He was a kind, respectful, peace-loving man, she said, making his shooting death by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents even harder to accept. “I’m angry. I can’t believe it. I…


ANALYSIS: ‘Forest to Farmland’ Signals China’s Return to a Planned Economy

A burgeoning movement to return forests to farmland and the sudden arrival of heavy-handed rural enforcers are at the center of recent dramatic events in China. China is making a major push to expand its arable land. The movement reverses years of ecological “farmland to forest” policies and includes the establishment of a new “Rural…


Baby Boomers Push Nation’s Median Age to Almost 39 as Fewer Children Are Born

The U.S. population has gotten older in the past two decades, with adults 65 or older growing by more than a third from 2010 to 2020, while the share of children under the age of 5 declined, according to Census Bureau data released May 25. From 2000 to 2020, baby boomers (born 1946–1964) and millennials…


US Median Age Rises to Almost 39 as Families Have Fewer Children

The U.S. population has gotten older in the past two decades, with adults 65 or older growing by more than a third from 2010 to 2020, while the share of children under the age of 5 declined, according to Census Bureau data released May 25. From 2000 to 2020, baby boomers (born 1946–1964) and millennials…


Comedian Arrested in Beijing as Informants Become Norm Again in China, Eroding Mutual Trust

Recently, there is a growing trend of people informing on others secretly in Chinese society, with multiple high profile incidents occurring in succession. Current affairs analysts point out that the culture of reporting others to the authorities is a typical product of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ideology, and breeds a lack of trust between…


They Are Scared: Proponents of Gender Affirmation Showed Their Fear at a Conference

Commentary I went to a CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists) training conference on May 5 and 6 in order to get an in-person account of what is happening in my profession, in particular regarding gender ideology. I attended because I wanted to hear firsthand what is being taught to my colleagues. They…


Do Americans Still Have the Right to Defend Themselves? Curtis Silwa Voices Alarm in Crossroads Interview

States like New York are compromising an individual’s right to defend themselves, the founder of nonprofit safety patrol group “Guardian Angels” Curtis Silwa, said in a recent interview while discussing the Neely murder case. On May 1, Jordan Neely, a homeless man with a history of mental illness, was reportedly threatening passengers on a New…


Rights Group: Uyghur Student Missing in Hong Kong After Texting That He Was Interrogated by Police

HONG KONG—A Uyghur student has been missing in Hong Kong for more than two weeks since he sent a message saying he was being interrogated by Chinese police at the city’s airport, a human rights group said Friday. Amnesty International said Abuduwaili Abudureheman, who was born in Xinjiang in western China, traveled to Hong Kong…


‘Backdoor Deal’ Allows ‘Illegal’ Immigrants to Enter US Legally, Border Patrol Union Leader Says

Illegal immigrants are coached to voluntarily withdraw their asylum claims, return to Mexico, and then return to the United States on humanitarian grounds, according to a U.S. Border Patrol union leader. Manny Bayon, a National Border Patrol Council union spokesman in San Diego, told The Epoch Times on May 26 that migrants who enter the…