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Vaguely interesting (Jan 26)

(1)  While the focus has been on the trouble Trump is having with elite business Republicans, he might end up having even more with religious lifestyle Republicans.

(2)  “50,000 American died of AIDS in the peak year of 1995. In 2014, just over 47,000 people of [drug] overdose.”

(3)  How racial bias affects both the creation of and response to the opioid/heroin epidemic: Whites are more likely to get hooked, because doctors are more likely to trust them with opioid prescriptions; and then a drug crisis rooted in white communities leads to a more compassionate response from law enforcement.

(4)  “[A]bsolute income isn’t the only way money makes you happy. How much people were making in relation to others, or relative income, matters too.”

(5)  The percentage of middle-aged, college-educated people who are millionaires? Around 22% of whites and Asians, but less than 7% of African Americans and Latinos.