77% of Older Americans Think Most People Can Be Trusted. Among Gen Z, It’s 35%.
🤝 Society ← Back to All Articles Ask an American born before 1960 whether most people can be trusted, and […]
Weekly Church Attendance Has Fallen From 44% to 31% Since 1992 — Young Adults Are Leaving Fastest
⛪ Faith & Society ← Back to All Articles In 1992, 44% of Americans said they went to a religious
Violent Crime Just Hit an 88-Year Low. 78% of Americans Still Think It’s Rising.
🔒 Crime & Safety ← Back to All Articles Violent crime in America just posted its steepest one-year drop since
They Cloned Her Daughter’s Voice: Inside the AI Fraud Epidemic Targeting American Seniors
📱 Digital Culture ← Back to All Articles A Florida mother picked up the phone and heard her daughter’s voice,
Overdose Deaths Just Fell for a Third Straight Year. Here’s Why That’s Not Quite Good News.
💊 Public Health ← Back to All Articles For the first time in a generation, the trend line on America’s
Civic Knowledge Is Rising. Trust in the Institutions That Apply It Just Collapsed.
🏛 Civic Life ← Back to All Articles For most of the last decade, the story told about American civic
Childhood Obesity: The Epidemic We Normalized
🏥 Public Health ← Back to All Articles Children do not choose what they eat, how they spend their time,
The Birth Rate Collapse: Why America Is Choosing Not to Have Children
💔 Marriage & Family ← Back to All Articles A society that stops having children has made a statement about
Prison Recidivism: Why America’s Justice System Keeps Failing
🔒 Crime & Safety ← Back to All Articles Within ten years of release from state prison, 82% of formerly
Civic Freefall: Two-Thirds of Americans Fail the Citizenship Test
🏛 Civic Life ← Back to All Articles Two-thirds of Americans would fail the civics test required to become a
The Wealth Gap Nobody in Washington Wants to Close
💰 Economy ← Back to All Articles The richest 1 percent of American households now hold $55 trillion in wealth
Falling for a Chatbot: Inside America’s Growing Romance with AI
🤖 Technology ← Back to All Articles Twenty-eight percent of American adults say they’ve had an intimate or romantic relationship
Vaping Nation: The Youth Nicotine Epidemic America Keeps Declaring Over
🚬 Health ← Back to All Articles The CDC keeps announcing that youth vaping is falling. It is — and
The Jobs America Is Quietly Losing to AI
🤖 Technology ← Back to All Articles In 2025, American employers blamed artificial intelligence for nearly 55,000 announced layoffs —
The Fall of Organized Labor in America
💼 Work ← Back to All Articles In 1983, one in five American wage earners belonged to a union. Today
Is College Still Worth It? Confidence in Higher Education Erodes
🎓 Education ← Back to All Articles In 2015, 57% of Americans said they had a great deal or quite
Watched: The Normalization of Surveillance in American Life
📷 Surveillance ← Back to All Articles Somewhere between the office and the front porch, America quietly agreed to be
The Erosion of Public Health Trust in America
🏥 Health ← Back to All Articles In the spring of 2025, three out of four Americans said they trusted
Who’s Going to Fix It? America’s Vanishing Skilled Trades Workforce
🔧 Trades ← Back to All Articles More than one in five construction workers in America is over 55. Over
Seeing Isn’t Believing Anymore: Deepfakes and the Collapse of Media Trust
📰 Institutions ← Back to All Articles Just 56 percent of American adults now say they trust national news organizations