What is a ‘closely held corporation,’ anyway, and how many are there?
The Supreme Court's long-awaited decision in the Hobby Lobby case says "closely held" corporations can have religious rights that need to be respected. What was it talking about?
Drew DeSilver
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Chart of the Week: How the Supreme Court justices line up
Supreme Court justices vote together more often than they don't, but some of that agreement may be surface-only.
A closer look at who identifies as Democrat and Republican
Looking at the two major U.S. political parties through the lens of our new political typology report shows that neither can rely solely on their staunchest supporters to win elections.
Chart of the Week: A century of U.S. political history
A very cool interactive timeline map of U.S. congressional districts.
New political typology data show islands of agreement amid sea of polarization
Despite increased polarization, the Pew Research Center's latest political typology report shows several areas of agreement between otherwise opposed groups.
Five years in, recovery still underwhelms compared with previous ones
The current economic recovery, which hit the five-year mark this month, has underperformed other recent expansions that have lasted at least as long.
Chart of the Week: Another way to see employment
How employment rates have fallen and (partially) recovered throughout the United States,
Why timely, reliable data on mass killings is hard to find
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.
Chart of the Week: The World Cup of (almost) everything
Interactive brackets let you see how the 32 nations competing in the World Cup stack up on 70 different sporting, economic and social indicators.
How the most ideologically polarized Americans live different lives
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 […]
