People are drawn to certain cities for many reasons. They’re centers of commerce and culture, arts and entertainment; they’re places for meeting and mingling. Rural environments may have been attractive during the height of…
Though some recording artists released online concerts to appease fans during the pandemic, dozens of festivals and hundreds of tour dates were cancelled or postponed in 2020 and earlier this year. Some musicians used…
In 2019, the last year for which comprehensive statistics are available, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program reported 10,085,207 arrests nationwide. That works out to 3,011 arrests per 100,000 residents. Of that number, 495,871…
It has now been 28 weeks since the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine were sent out to states, kicking off the largest vaccination campaign in human history. As of June 27, 381,282,720 doses…
The percentage of American adults with a four-year college degree has continued to increase in recent years, growing from less than 10% in much of the 1960s to 33.1% in 2019. Americans with college…
If you want to produce a top-grossing film nowadays, make it animated and about superheroes, wizards, vampires, and pirates doing battle in the dystopian future in Middle Earth in a galaxy far, far away.…
For decades, Americans have gathered around their television sets to be entertained, commemorate holidays, watch riveting sporting events, and be informed. Though many TV hosts have come and gone, a select few have had…
Major food companies employ virtual armies of chefs, food scientists, and marketing gurus dedicated to developing, test-marketing, and (if all goes well) eventually rolling out new products. Both salty and sweet, and sometimes both…
Every child is born to a unique set of circumstances that help shape who they become. While these environmental conditions are virtually countless, a small handful of factors play an outsized role in a…
It has now been 27 weeks since the first shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine were sent out to states, kicking off the largest vaccination campaign in human history. As of June 23, 378,882,200 doses…
Poverty in the United States was falling prior to the pandemic — the share of the population with incomes below the federal poverty rate fell from 13.1% in 2018 to 12.3% in 2019, the…
The COVID-19 pandemic set off an economic crisis that pushed the unemployment rate to levels that rivaled the highs of the Great Depression. Fortunately, the recovery has been relatively rapid, and weekly initial unemployment…
The news outlet ProPublica recently revealed that U.S. billionaires pay little or no federal income tax on their immense fortunes, and the details are deeply unnerving to anyone except the most ardent defenders of…
The U.S. reported over 41,000 new cases of coronavirus on June 23, bringing the total count to more than 33.2 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 596,000 COVID-19-related deaths —…
While films about love and relationships usually take one of two approaches — sweet and lovable or steamy and intimate — some notable exceptions achieve neither and end up as misguided messes. 24/7 Tempo…
