Pew Research Center

72% of Americans say the U.S. used to be a good example of democracy, but isn’t anymore

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...
The Boston Globe

Inequality: a notion, a statistic, a bane of our existence

Lane Kenworthy’s Dec. 14 Ideas essay, “Almost everything you’ve heard about inequality is wrong,” offers a useful challenge to the popular belief that reducing income inequality is a cure-all for ...
Pew Research Center

6. Is U.S. democracy a good example to follow?

The publics surveyed are largely skeptical that democracy in the U.S., at least in its current form, is a good example for other countries to follow. A median of four-in-ten across the 34 nations ...
The Conversation

Jan. 6 was an example of networked incitement − a media and disinformation expert explains the danger of political violence orchestrated over social media

Joan Donovan is on the board of Free Press and the founder of the Critical Internet Studies Institute. The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that ...
The Conversation

International Statistic of the Year: Race for a COVID-19 vaccine

Liberty Vittert is an Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society and a Judge for the Royal Statistical Society's Statistic of the Year. Scientists in China published the complete genetic sequence of ...