Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is the … Read more
Americans have grown sour on one of the longtime key ingredients of the American dream. Almost two-thirds of registered voters say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost, according to a new NBC News poll, a dramatic decline … Read more
HomeCauses of Death What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on? Acknowledgments For this work, we relied on Media Cloud, an open-access platform for media analysis. We would like … Read more
A customer at a sports bar near Boston’s Fenway Park looks at the mobile betting app on his phone after placing a wager while a men’s college basketball game is showing in March 2023. (Charles Krupa/AP File) Public awareness of … Read more
A responsible news media has a lot of jobs, but here’s one of the most important: giving audiences an accurate image of the state of the world around them. How’s the country doing, overall? Is the economy booming or busting? … Read more
Oscar Wong | Moment | Getty Images For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family. When she and her husband sold the house last year, they stowed … Read more
Aug 31st 2024 Witnesses said the driver showed no signs of slowing down. On June 3rd Nicole Louthain and her six-year-old daughter were stopped at a red light in Grand Forks, North Dakota when they were struck from behind by … Read more
July 11, 2024, 1:48pm According to a new Gallup poll, Americans are losing the thread with higher education. Confidence in college has taken a nosedive, with one out of three poll responders claiming they have “little or no confidence” in … Read more
Many more people are jumping from one streaming subscription to another, a behavior that could have big implications for the entertainment industry. Oscar Nimmo Early last year, Josh Meisel and his wife wanted to watch a new buzzy Peacock drama, … Read more
This week! Books! First up, some stats that are as bracing as the January weather outside (not really, I live in Southern California) to kick off our roundup. A full 46% of Americans did not finish a book last year … Read more