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    4. How COVID-19 impacted Americans’ relationship with technology

    Colleen McClain, Olivia Sidoti and Monica Anderson contributed to this chapter. For many Americans, life in the early days of COVID-19 was lived on screens. Schools pivoted to virtual learning and businesses shuttered or moved online as in-person contact risked spreading the virus. Not everyone could – or wanted to – avoid in-person interaction. And […]

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    WaPo columnist resigns over column criticizing Bezos

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Ruth Marcus, a longtime editor and columnist for the Washington Post opinion section, resigned on Monday after her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos’ changes to the section was scrapped. Bezos announced last month that the opinion section would begin […]

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    2. How COVID-19 changed U.S. workplaces

    Kim Parker contributed to this chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shockwaves through the U.S. labor market. Businesses shuttered, millions of Americans lost their jobs, and for many others their home became their workplace. We tracked these changes starting from the early months of the coronavirus outbreak. Our trends outline the journey workers have been through. […]

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    Musk claims journalists are doxxing his staff

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, Elon Musk claimed that journalists reporting on his Department of Government Efficiency and its employees are “doxxing” his staff, or publishing private personal information about them.  As they have for the past four decades, most Americans say criticism from news […]

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    3. How the COVID-19 pandemic affected U.S. religious life

    Michael Rotolo contributed to this chapter. The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on how religious communities gather for worship. In a Pew Research Center survey in July 2020, a few months after the coronavirus struck the United States, just 6% of Americans who regularly attend religious services said their house of worship was open […]

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    5. Spread of infectious diseases as a threat

    A 60% median across 25 nations say the spread of infectious diseases is a major threat to their country. In many places, the share holding this view has fallen since 2022.

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    FAQs about political weighting in polling and its limitations

    There are good arguments against weighting surveys to match how people voted in past elections or an independent estimate of political party affiliation. We know because we’ve made many of those arguments over the years! However, the steep decline in survey response rates and the rise in differential partisan nonresponse have made those arguments less […]