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Ambitious Democrats are increasingly jumping into a universe of podcasts and internet shows they once shunned: right-leaning ones geared toward men. Why it matters: President Trump won the majority of male voters last November — and made huge gains among those under 30, a group Joe Biden had won in 2020. Now Democrats are scrambling to counter Trump's version of masculine appeal. ...

new study led by researchers at Florida State University somewhat shockingly suggests that married people are more likely to develop dementia.Would you believe me if I told you that staying single or ending your marriage could lower your odds of getting dementia? A 2019 study from America found that unmarried people had “significantly higher odds of developing dementia over the study period than their married counterparts”. Indeed, married people are generally thought to have better health. Studies have shown that they are at reduced risk of having heart disease and stroke and they tend to live longer. So why...

Witchcraft has been feared, mocked and romanticized — but rarely has it been fully understood as a story of feminist resistance and enduring cultural power. Feminist studies scholar Jane Ward has set out to change that narrative. Her latest book — a collaboration with co-author Soma Chaudhuri — introduces “feminist witch studies,” a new interdisciplinary field that explores the power, persecution and political dimensions of witchcraft across cultures. Ward, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, first engaged with the subject while preparing a course on the history of witches and witchcraft. Known for her work in sexuality and gender studies...

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 If woke is a mind virus, then white college indoctrinated women are the most susceptible hosts. 0:06 / 0:46 1:24 PM · Mar 20, 2025

Let me start by telling all the white women who are about to read this post that they can yell at me via joe.kinsey@outkick.com. Really let me have it. Now, let's get into this startling data as to what's happening with American white women who step foot on college campuses and then stay on those campuses for multiple years and then leave with a degree. In a major shocker, it turns out a staggering number of those white women have an overwhelmingly positive view of Ukraine's welfare recipient President Zelensky & corporate DEI initiatives. As OutKick founder Clay Travis put...

A recent NBC News poll seeking voters’ opinions of Donald Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk, DOGE, the Republican Party, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, DEI and the Democratic Party is revealing a growing polarization within the ranks of white voters. NBC national political correspondent Steve Kornacki says the fault line is growing fastest between the demographics of upscale white women with college degrees and blue collar white men with no college degree. Kornacki reports that it’s not just a difference of opinion but the equivalent of two demographics who are living in polar opposite political and cultural universes. Steve Kornacki @SteveKornacki White non-college...

Ione Skye claims Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis got her pregnant — and paid for her abortion — when she was 17 years old. The actress made the shocking revelation in her new memoir, “Say Everything,” claiming they made the painful decision together due to her young age and the rocker’s heroin addiction. Skye was just 16 years old when she started dating Kiedis, who was 24 when they struck up a romance. “I was the type of girl who’d wanted a baby since I was a baby, who used to fantasize about finding a swaddled infant on...

A study reveals that bacterial vaginosis (BV), a condition affecting nearly a third of women worldwide and causing infertility, premature births and newborn deaths, is in fact a sexually transmitted infection (STI), paving the way for a revolution in how it is treated. The standard practice of treating BV as an imbalance (disruption) to the vaginal microbiome means that more than 50% of women get it back within three months after the standard week-long treatment of an oral antibiotic. In their trial of 164 couples with BV in monogamous relationships, they found that treating BV as an STI, with both...

Patients prescribed drugs for movement disorders - including restless leg syndrome (RLS) - say doctors did not warn them about serious side effects that led them to seek out risky sexual behaviour. Twenty women have told the BBC that the drugs - given to them for RLS, which causes an irresistible urge to move - ruined their lives. A report by drugs firm GSK - seen by the BBC - shows it learned in 2003 of a link between the medicines, known as dopamine agonist drugs, and what it described as "deviant" sexual behaviour. While there is no explicit reference...

A new study published in PLOS One found that men and women misjudge what the opposite sex finds attractive. A research team in the United Kingdom asked 144 people — with an average age of 22 — to adjust a 3D model of a man’s or a woman’s face to match their appearance to find out what they believed the other gender finds the most attractive for both short- and long-term relationships. Sharp, bold features like chiseled jawlines are often described as more masculine, while soft, delicate features like full lips are characterized as more feminine — and everyone’s rushing...

Any time I venture into public, I’m increasingly convinced more people should have been bullied as kids (of the swirlie variety, not the “I wish you were dead” kind). Behind every ill-adjusted adult who thinks “ask me about my pronouns” buttons are rad or that perpetually living in his mom’s basement is normal is a dork who didn’t get shoved into enough lockers for weird behavior. Public shaming would go a long way in phasing out all kinds of social ills. People should be made to feel stupid for masking outdoors or chomping popcorn with their mouths open during quiet...

SUNNY ISLES BEACH, Fla. – A Miami Beach woman was caught on surveillance video keying a man’s car in Sunny Isles Beach after a dispute over a parking space, authorities confirmed in an arrest report Wednesday. Sunny Isles Beach police said Damaras Iracema Rivera, 20, was arrested and faces one count of criminal mischief after police reviewed surveillance footage from the parking lot of Newport Fishing Pier Park, located at 16501 Collins Ave. According to an arrest report, the victim, a 36-year-old man, told officers he parked his red Mini Cooper at the lot around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 14...

A Michigan man is in prison after driving more than 730 miles to Pennsylvania to set fire to a home where his ex-girlfriend’s new love interest was living, police said Monday. Police in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, said the suspect set fire to the home a little after 5 a.m. on Feb. 10. Law enforcement and fire officials responded to the house — which was “fully engulfed” — and located six adults who had evacuated, including one who jumped out of a second-story window to escape, Bensalem Police’s Director of Public Safety William McVey said at the news conference Monday. “At the...

Serum testosterone (T) recovery to normal levels is associated with a significant improvement in overall survival in patients with high-risk prostate cancer receiving radiotherapy and long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), according to a study. Abdenour Nabid, M.D. and colleagues randomly assigned 630 patients with high-risk prostate cancer to pelvic radiotherapy plus 36 versus 18 months of ADT (310 and 320 patients, respectively). Serum T was collected at baseline and regularly thereafter. T recovery was defined as return of T to within the normal range value of each participating institution. T data were available for 515 patients who were retained for...

A crowd of predominantly liberal voters at the University of Chicago reacted in shock when sports and conservative commentator Clay Travis laid out his argument on why young men are increasingly turning away from the Democratic Party. The moment unfolded during an Institute of Politics (IOP) panel discussion titled “Divided We Stand 2025,” which explored the growing political and cultural gender divide among young Americans. The event featured a discussion between political analysts and cultural commentators, including Daniel Cox, a researcher focusing on demographic trends, and journalist Magdalene Taylor. As the conversation delved into the shifting political landscape among young...

Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of 2020. Further research in 2022 found that depression had surged among liberal high school girls in the last decade-and-a-half, and much more so for them than other high schoolers, especially conservatives. Is this ideological gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present? Yes, new evidence from 2024 American Family Survey indicates it is. Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than their...

"My Standards Are Higher As a Single Mother," Woman Says Men Should Do More For Her and Her Son

A Florida woman was caught on camera chucking a commemorative “first date” brick through her ex-husband’s window late last month – even as she repeatedly denied carrying out the vengeful act, according to police. Sabrina Coyne, 34, was arrested around 11 p.m. on Jan. 24 when Lee County Sheriff deputies confronted her in front of her ex’s Bonita Springs home, according to footage released by authorities. When law enforcement first reached the scene, one deputy asked Coyne, who was wearing a short dress and high heels, why she was banging on the front door. ... She claimed she lived at...

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith admitted that he and others who voted for Kamala Harris in November's election feel like "d--- fools," during an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher on Friday. Smith made this declaration when discussing comparisons between Harris' campaign and Barack Obama's campaign in 2008. The sports pundit argued that the fact that Harris was not nominated via a legitimate primary, and the fact that she performed so poorly during her short stint in the 2020 Democratic primary, made her undesirable to voters. Harris dropped out of the 2020 primary in 2019, before even reaching the...

Mark Pincus, a tech billionaire who supported Biden in 2020, told "The All-In Podcast" this week that learning Donald Trump was taken out of context regarding the "very fine" people in Charlottesville was a "red-pill moment" for him. "It wasn't just the media or politicians spinning it. That speech was one of the pillars of why you were supposed to hate Trump. You see Biden say that's why he had to run a second time, and you see Obama say it, and Biden brings it up again at the DNC." "It is one of their pillars and they clearly know...