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America is in the middle of a suicide crisis. Since the turn of the millennium, the suicide rate has risen 35%, increasing year-on-year. In 2018, there were nearly 50,000 suicides, the highest per capita rate since the second World War. As I've written at the Washington Free Beacon, this unprecedented spike resists easy explanation. Popular theories—the widespread availability of firearms, the rise of social media and the internet, and spiking "despair"—at best account for a fraction of the increase. As such, assuming that the crisis is multicausal, it is worth investigating the roll that changing social institutions play in mediating suicide risk. Read More
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