Drew DeSilver

Big cities in the U.S. tend toward the liberal side of the political spectrum, even when they’re within conservative states (residents of Austin sometimes joke that their city is “an island surrounded by Texas”). But which cities are more liberal — or conservative — than their reputations?

This interactive chart makes comparing occupational employment and pay across states not only easy but fun.

Midway through its second and final year, the 113th Congress remains one of the least legislatively productive in recent history.

While online survey panels have long been used by market researchers, they’re relatively new in the opinion-research field, and views on them are sharply divided.

States that were hit the hardest by the Great Recession experienced the biggest birthrate declines.

A new Census Bureau data visualization depicts the relationships between undergraduate majors and types of occupations.

Among U.S. adults, different age cohorts have markedly different political profiles, but the relationship is considerably more complex than young people leaning liberal and older people being more conservative.

Two of every five U.S. households have no landline phones, but the growth rate of cord-cutting slowed last year.