Americans split on value of surveillance programs
Four-in-ten Americans believe the government's phone and internet surveillance programs have made the U.S. safer against terrorism.
Four-in-ten Americans believe the government's phone and internet surveillance programs have made the U.S. safer against terrorism.
South Africa experienced tremendous political change during Nelson Mandela's lifetime, but whites remain on top of the country's economy.
President Obama took on a topic yesterday that most Americans don’t like to talk about much: inequality. There are a lot of ways to measure economic inequality (and we’ll be discussing more on Fact Tank), but one basic approach is to look at how much income flows to groups at different steps on the economic […]
There are nearly 591 million internet users in China.
Americans are producing fewer but bigger turkeys, and as domestic consumption falls more of the birds are heading overseas.
Keeping up with what people do online is no easy task — just ask the researchers in our Internet Project. Nor is it much easier for those seeking ways to make money off online activities — they’re changing almost too fast to keep up with. But the folks at Quartz, the business-news site from Atlantic […]
The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline across the U.S.
How to visualize American migration from state to state -- without maps.
Confidence in government plunged in most developed countries in the wake of the global financial crisis, a new OECD report finds.
About half of all Americans own stocks, either directly or indirectly.