But here are the best players born in equally poor, or poorer, Dominican Republican, with Albert Pujols narrowly in the lead over Adrian Beltre and Pedro Martinez. One difference for the huge gap in baseball accomplishment is that Dominicans are a lot blacker by ancestry than are Mexicans.

Here are the all time top Mexican-born major league baseball players, with Fernando Valenzuela by far the best and his kinsman Teddy Higuera Valenzuela second:

Here's the kind of ultra-feminine pastimes that "Zooey Zephyr" was up to until recently. But how many BS subscribers get the joke?

Is there a secret cheat code that lets you find the more entertaining and less cringe posts on BS?

Centrist pundit Noah Smith argues that the race gap in IQ is No Big Deal because it could be eliminated by a mere 9 generations of state-mandated eugenic breeding, which would be only 261 years 29 years per generation. He's also argued that selective immigration would reduce the race gap in IQ.

What's next? Will the New York Times assert with no evidence whatsoever that blacks tend to be faster at the 100 meter dash?

Next, the New York Times will be purporting that blacks tend to be faster runners!

Here are black Americans' deaths per week by homicide (red line) and motor vehicle accident from 2018 to November 2024. The George Floyd-Black Lives Matter "racial reckoning" that began May 25, 2020 appears to have gotten a lot of black lives splattered.

Five year later, few yet know this.

Here are black deaths by homicide (and by motor vehicle accident) by week from 2018 to late 2024 according the CDC's WONDER mortality database. You can see that the BLM frenzy of 2020 got many black lives splattered.

This graph from your recent story is misleading. It makes it look like the big surge in homicides came before George Floyd's demise rather than immediately afterwards. Whether the homicide surge preceded or followed the racial reckoning is massively important. Your article needs a correction:

That's the lake in Pennsylvania that De Niro, Walken, Cazale, and Savage drive to after the wedding scene in "The Deer Hunter."