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More than six decades of global temperature data, condensed into a 15-second visualization.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
More than six decades of global temperature data, condensed into a 15-second visualization.
Assessing the value of using the labels “moderate,” “liberal” and “conservative” to describe the electorate.
His approval has slipped, but is not much different from where Reagan stood at this point in his term. But the public’s conservative shift could be trouble for the president.
Why do fewer Americans believe the earth is warming? A range of possibilities, including a sour economy and, perhaps, a cooler than normal summer in parts of the U.S., may provide an explanation.
A compilation of the top 15 stories in which public opinion played a significant role, and the year’s most notable “non-barking dogs.”
Over the past two decades, the number of Americans who see the country as divided along economic lines has increased sharply, and twice as many people now see themselves among the society’s “have-nots.”
The differences that divide us are much smaller than those that set us apart from the rest of the world
Beyond partisanship — and behind those healthy economic indicators — Americans may be seeing something that most economists overlook.
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