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as theirconcerns over the economy and immigrationpropelled Trump back into office. Nonetheless, voters across the political spectrum arebroadly unhappy with the state of health care and health insurance. A recent poll fromPerryUndem/YouGovdove into how exactly Americans felt about the U...
Most Americans are not familiar with term critical race theory, but that hasn’t stopped some from getting upset about attempts to reckon with the sprawling repercussions of slavery.
Many Americans are disinterested in the work available (I have seen numerous men in trades talk about offering jobs or apprenticeships to unemployed younger men and having those younger men turn them down), while many have little thought to the future (1 in 6 older people plan to spend all ...
Americans are extraordinarily divided politically. On any given day, one can see pundits on television, in magazines, in the newspaper or on the internet involved in increasingly polarized debates related to a wide variety of political, economic and social issues. Media outlets themselves increasingly...
So why do nearly three-fourths of Americans think the country is on the wrong track? And If Obama is winding up his two-term presidency on a high point, why – as an apparently frustrated Hillary Clinton voiced recently – isn't the Democratic contender 50 points ahead of Republican Donald...
To do so, we examine hypothesized predictors of the political gap between professors and other Americans using General Social Survey data pooled from 1974–2008. Results indicate that professors are more liberal than other Americans because a higher proportion possess advanced educational credentials, ...
The United States and the Soviet Union were the world's two superpowers during the Cold War. Geopolitically, nations were classified according to their allegiance with either power. The US-allied countries were the First World and Soviet allies comprised the Second World....
In order for Vietnam to be free of a Communist government, the United States decided to ally with France so the Vietminh could not gain more power. Since the Americans were fresh out of fighting the Korean and Chinese Civil War, they believed Communism could be spreading everywhere. Beginning...
Anthropologist David Graeber draws comparisons between a basic income and an existing institution that gives 2.2 million Americans the opportunity not to work: "I always talk about prisons, where people are fed, clothed, they've got shelter; they could just sit around all day. But actually, the...