Because partisanship and voting preference are highly correlated – and most adults stick with their preferred party over time – voter turnout is often a key factor in understanding why there are ...

NEW YORK, March 12, 2020 -- A monitor shows the trading infomation at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, March 12, 2020. Intensifying coronavirus fears battered Wall Street on ...

The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since ...

In the ongoing experiment that is democracy, every election creates ripple effects for the ones to follow. But occasionally there is an election cycle so disruptive, it changes practically everything.

Shooting incident in Corona, Queens on November 1, 2020. This year the country has experienced significantly higher levels of gun violence. Across the U.S., this year has taken a heavy toll. The ...

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Lives lost, families torn apart, economies ruined – these tragedies are just some of the devastation caused by the deadly novel coronavirus as it swept the globe in 2020. The pandemic brought the ...

In a year of subtraction, it’s hard to begrudge anyone a bit of verbal addition, even if doubling the consonant when the stress falls outside the suffixed syllable hasn’t been standard in American ...

The number of murders in the United States jumped by nearly 30% in 2020 compared with the previous year in the largest single-year increase ever recorded in the country, according to official FBI ...

The coronavirus pandemic broke out in the United States just as the 2020 census got underway, causing an unprecedented disruption of operations and raising questions about the extent of undercounts or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Dec 28, 2020, 07:30am EST Dec 28, 2020, 03:16pm EST This article ...

Poverty in the United States fell last year, even amid the impact of the pandemic, due to government aid, including relief payments and unemployment insurance. That's according to new data just ...