Drew DeSilver

The current economic recovery, which hit the five-year mark this month, has underperformed other recent expansions that have lasted at least as long.

How employment rates have fallen and (partially) recovered throughout the United States,

Several government agencies and nonprofit groups gather and publish data on school shootings and other public mass killings. But because of data lags and differing definitions, getting a clear read on overall trends is surprisingly hard.

Interactive brackets let you see how the 32 nations competing in the World Cup stack up on 70 different sporting, economic and social indicators.

For America’s most ardent liberals and conservatives, polarization begins at home. In what may seem like stereotypes come to life, a new Pew Research Center study on political polarization finds that conservatives would rather live in large houses in small towns and rural areas — ideally among people of the same religious faith — while liberals opt […]

You don’t have to look hard to see evidence of political polarization — just watch cable news, listen to talk radio or follow social-media debates. Indeed, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Americans are more ideologically polarized today than they’ve been in at least two decades. Their representatives in Congress are divided too, and have […]

The U.S. finally has more jobs than it did before the Great Recession, but that's not nearly enough to keep pace with the growing population.

A new Census report reveals interesting regional differences in the characteristics of newly built homes.

Facts and figures about college graduates.

Americans spend less on food than they ever have, and are fatter than they've ever been. Could there be a connection?