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Poor people often don’t survive to become seniors who vote
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US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country
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The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy
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Half of Americans anticipate a U.S. civil war soon
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High cost of cancer care in the U.S. doesn’t reduce mortality rates
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Actuarial Life Table
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Is old music killing new music?
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About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
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Breakdown of data on homeless populations across the U.S.
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As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
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U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time
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Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
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Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?
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Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens
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U.S. Adult Obesity Rate Tops 42 Percent; Highest Ever Recorded
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'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
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Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence
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Our World in Data: Suicide
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Defining the ’90s Music Canon
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March 2020 was the first March without a school shooting in the U.S. since 2002
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P.J. Vogt on Reply All’s “The Case of the Missing Hit”
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Why Do American Houses Have So Many Bathrooms?
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The eleven nations of the United States and their cultures
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Alcohol Belts of Europe
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Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults
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Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve
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Why Our Postwar “Long Peace” Is Fragile (2018)
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The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones
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Gun laws where guns take the most lives
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U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further
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Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime
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Lead: America's Real Criminal Element (2013)
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How many deaths make a disaster newsworthy?
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How We Found New Patterns in LA’s Homeless Arrest Data
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A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka
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Since 1700, Wine Glasses Have Gotten 7 Times Bigger
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The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than double that of veterans
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Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of Slavery
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Western fast food companies are aggressively expanding in Brazil
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Percentage of Europeans Who Are Willing to Fight a War for Their Country
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How the Mid-Victorians Worked, Ate and Died (2009)
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America’s new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor didn’t
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U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
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USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources
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Young White America Is Haunted by a Crisis of Despair
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Suicides in Rural America Increased More Than 40% in 16 Years
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I’m a Coastal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble Is Rural America
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Pinker: “News is a misleading way to understand the world”
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Lead Water Pipes in 1900 Caused Higher Crime Rates in 1920?
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For life expectancy, money matters
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You Know Less Than You Think About Guns
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Why the CDC Tracks Wireless-Only Households and Their Risky Behavior
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The World Is Not Falling Apart (2014)
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Mass incarceration: A new theory for why so many Americans are in prison
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Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
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Impulsive Rich Kid, Impulsive Poor Kid
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De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings
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Why did crime plummet in the US?
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Chord progressions of 25,000 songs
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The world is not falling apart: The trend lines
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A Suicide Epidemic in Utah, and One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Why
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Raise the Crime Rate (2012)
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Nine Nations of North America 30 years Later
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How Americans Die
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Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation
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The American-Western European Values Gap
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Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?
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Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
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Deadbook, the Long-term Facebook
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Google: Focus on the User
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The music industry finds another way to shoot itself in the foot
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Cost of Health Care By Country, as Compared to Life Expectancy
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Smoking Causes Cancer
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Estimate your age of death
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The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince's audio engineer
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Notes on El Salvador
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US city-country mortality gap widens
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This is a teenager
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US has the highest rate of maternal deaths among rich nations. Norway has zero
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I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
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Rescuing songs that record labels forgot existed
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