Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Americans are embracing the spooky spirit of Halloween not only a lot more than they did last year, but also about as much as in 2019, according to new polling.
Per an Oct. 1-5 Morning Consult survey, more than half (56 percent) of U.S. adults said they plan to celebrate Halloween this year, up 14 percentage points from the 2020 holiday. That’s roughly in line with the 57 percent who said they celebrated in 2019, prior to the pandemic. Read More...
Born in Cardiff and now living in Ceredigion, Gillian Clarke (b. 1937) became the third National Poet of Wales in 2008. Her work has been translated into ten languages, and she has been awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. She has also written radio and theatre drama, and translated poetry and prose from Welsh. The Gathering/Yr Helfa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Wales, was performed on Yr Wyddfa (Mount Snowdon) in 2014. Read More...
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Task Force last month -- a move to implement the religious liberty guidance President Donald Trump ordered last year -- he said its intention was to “accommodate people of faith” and “ensure that their rights are being protected.”
But critics say this new initiative was created with only Christians in mind, a group that makes up approximately 71 percent of the country and 91 percent of Congress, per Pew Research Center data. Read More...
