An Audio Tour Through America’s Top-Ranked Podcasts
To offer a taste of the variety of topics the top-ranked podcasts represent, and to give a sense of what podcast listeners experience, we compiled clips from the shows we studied.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement Has Dropped Considerably From Its Peak in 2020
Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement – down from 67% in June 2020. A majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn’t led to improvement for Black Americans.
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Asian voters in the U.S. tend to be Democratic, but Vietnamese American voters are an exception
About six-in-ten Asian American registered voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, but 51% of Vietnamese American voters tilt Republican.
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About 8 in 10 women in opposite-sex marriages say they took their husband’s last name
Younger women, women with a postgraduate degree and Democratic women are more likely to keep their last name after marriage.
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Black Americans’ Experiences With News
Black Americans see a range of problems with how Black people are covered in the news. Almost two-thirds of Black adults (63%) say news about Black people is often more negative than news about other racial and ethnic groups. And while few are optimistic that will change in the foreseeable future, many see ways in which that coverage could be improved.
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Growing public concern about the role of artificial intelligence in daily life
52% of Americans say they feel more concerned than excited about the increased use of artificial intelligence.
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Latinos’ Views of and Experiences With the Spanish Language
Most U.S. Latinos speak Spanish: 75% say they are able to carry on a conversation in Spanish pretty well or very well. But not all Latinos are Spanish speakers, and about half (54%) of non-Spanish-speaking Latinos have been shamed by other Latinos for not speaking Spanish.
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2. What Americans think about COVID-19 vaccines
More than two years after the COVID-19 vaccines were widely available for adults in the United States, Americans provide mixed assessments of the value and potential risks of these vaccines. Overall, a majority of Americans believe the benefits of the coronavirus vaccines outweigh the risks and tend to align with the idea that COVID-19 vaccines […]
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Methodology
Collection and analysis of Twitter data Twitter analysis in this report is based on 4.8 million tweets collected from March 8 to April 27, 2023. This process involved collecting batches of 3,000 new tweets every 30 minutes over the duration of the collection period using the Twitter Streaming API. This resulted in a sample of […]
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1. Politicians, changing leadership and political parties
In the vast majority of the 24 countries surveyed, politicians are the most common subject of proposals to improve democracy. Some call for different types of people to enter the political arena, while others simply want their current politicians to perform better. Many want their leaders to pay closer attention to and respond more appropriately […]
