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What's the combination of education and gender that leads to the highest level of religious attendance?

It's men with graduate degrees.

That's appeared consistently in the data since 2016.

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C.S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer.

It is rather instructive…

Please get back to the class when Hunter Biden runs for national office (or any elected office). Until then, let's not have any comparisons with George W. Shrub (as Molly Ivins called him) was involved in electoral politics for years. That he was an alcoholic who got a pass from the press was just the icing on the shit cake.

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