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Trump’s attempt to co-opt Ukraine’s precarious position with Russia worsens existing divides inside Ukraine and weakens US influence abroad.
Since 1990, the homicide rate has declined by 20%. Researchers are still figuring out what’s behind the trend: increased incarceration, improvements in the economy or even aging populations.
After a foreign policy win, presidents usually enjoy a short-term poll boost. But that’s often followed by a long-term decline.
Was the ban a Muslim ban – or was that just an anti-Trump narrative? A political scientist combs through the data for answers.
Millennials are now between about 23 and 38 – and the group is more diverse than it often gets credit for.
A study looked at fines in 93 California cities. Cities with more black residents and more disproportionately white police forces tended to rely the most on fines.
A quirk of mathematics gives voters in some small states, like Rhode Island and Nebraska, an extra edge over voters in other states. This happens not only in the US, but in other countries, too.
The backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned to more than 700,000. Wait times have doubled in the last three years.
Single parents and unmarried parents who live together spend less on their children than married parents.
Most of the world might hate Trump, but in some places, based largely on his policies, there is hope and even admiration.
The typical American’s annual household carbon footprint is over five times the world per capita average.
The volume of migration to the US from Mexico dropped 53% between 2003 and 2017.
Evidence suggests that support for stricter background checks has increased and opposition has softened.
Americans have never felt warmer toward immigrants, nor have they ever been more supportive of immigration.
Firearms are the second leading cause of death among US children and adolescents.
According to a new study, about 52 of every 100,000 men and boys, and about 3 of every 100,000 women and girls, are killed by police in the US.
Data released under FOIA shows that ICE is encountering more US citizens and more women.
US school segregation is higher than it has been in decades, even if there are no longer overt laws requiring racially segregated schools.
While there’s still a great deal that is unknown about sex trafficking, research studies and nonprofits have been able to gather telling data on this industry’s victims and perpetrators.
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