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iPhones may have slightly exacerbated an already underway drop in unintended pregnancies among teens. That’s the big finding in a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). In a more sane environment, this paper would be greeted with somewhere between slightly increased respect for the poor smartphone and a collective shrug. Or perhaps with some skepticism—how exactly did the authors reach this conclusion anyway? Does it hold up? You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. Alas, we live in…

Ansar Allah, the Yemeni political and military organization commonly known as the Houthis, announced on Monday that they would close the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait to Israeli ships, adding ominously that they “consider all enemy movements to be legitimate military targets for our Armed Forces.” The declaration highlighted another unrealized goal of the American-Israeli war on Iran. Along with ending Iran’s nuclear program, toppling the Islamic Republic, and eliminating Tehran’s missiles and drones, the U.S. and Israel have sought to sever Iran from its forward deterrent network of partners—or what Western commentators, without nuance or real understanding, call Iran’s “proxies.” The dramatic…

Even if you’re not typically averse to bugs, the idea of raising and then releasing thousands of insects into the wild might give you the heebie-jeebies.  But if it helps you rest easier, the mass release of sterile male insects is a long-standing means of insect population control, and it’s now being used to slow the spread of vector-borne diseases, including those carried by mosquitoes. Screwworm — a harmful parasite once largely eradicated with the help of a successful sterile insect program — is back. Multiple reported U.S. cases have drawn news coverage, as has a request from researchers with Google’s…

The best thing former President Joe Biden and his family can do is go away and let Democrats battle Trump and Republicans free of their baggage. Source link

Held indefinitely, immigrants imprisoned in Eswatini lack medical attention, food and clothing, according to complaint. Kate Morrissey Capital & Main A military plane carrying five U.S. immigrants took off from Djibouti in July 2025.  Its destination was Eswatini, a small country nestled on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. Ruled by a king, Eswatini had made a deal with the Trump administration to receive up to 160 people removed from the United States in exchange for $5.1 million. According to a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, the men didn’t know where they were going…

Republicans are about to inflict a rather strange vision of masculinity on America, one that is less the Triumph of the Will that they wanted, and more Idiocracy. The political messaging to their audience is simple: Democratic men are all gay transgender tofu-eating double-Communist weenies, and you don’t want to be that, do you?Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Time To Ramp Up Pressure on Putin To End Ukraine War Source link

Lee Camp Substack Despite all of their reporting dripping with imperial propaganda, the New York Times can be useful at times. For example, if they start reporting that something needs to be done about [fill in country here], then it generally alerts us all that the US oligarchy/CIA/lizard billionaires have been working towards coup’ing [country] for months already. So who/what is the Times now telling us we need to do something about? Mexico. We – the murderous, blood-thirty United States – must do something to “help” Mexico. Should we send our helpful bombs or our helpful CIA agents or our helpful mercenaries or perhaps…

After the downing of an Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. bombed Iran Tuesday evening, and Iran retaliated with strikes against U.S. bases in Jordan and Bahrain as the Iran War entered its 103rd day on Wednesday. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the strikes on social media, saying that U.S. forces were carrying out “self-defense strikes… in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.” CENTCOM said the strikes began at 5 PM U.S. Eastern Time. Around four hours later, CENTCOM announced the strikes had been completed. Iran’s Tasnim news agency said the U.S. strikes…

Graham Platner easily secured Maine’s Democratic nomination for a key U.S. Senate seat. In South Carolina, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s career derailed. Source link