Nearly everybody experiences anger in everyday life, whether it’s frustrations about making ends meet, the state of public transport or a misunderstanding at work. Gallup’s 2021 Global Emotions Report set out to gauge emotions (including anger levels) […]
Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) are the two senators currently standing in the way of the Democratic Party abolishing or carving out exceptions to the Senate filibuster. This is currently the only way for […]
Americans’ pride in their country has steadily fallen since Gallup started conducting a survey on the subject in 2001. Now, national pride in the U.S. has plummeted to an all-time low, as the fewest respondents in […]
The Buffalo supermarket shooting, the massacre of elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas, the attack on a doctor and bystanders in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the workplace shooting at a Maryland concrete plant; mass shootings […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday night that the lower chamber would move on legislation aimed at banning the sale of assault weapons like the AR-15 or similar styles in the U.S. Weapons […]
The not-guilty verdict in the court case against Kyle Rittenhouse has ignited a debate about self-defense laws and also gun carry laws in the United States. In August 2020, Rittenhouse, then 17 years old, […]
In order to help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartacus started publishing the Gay Travel Index in 2012. In the 2020 edition, the ranking compared 202 countries and territories based on the situation of lesbian, […]
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed his state’s much-discussed Parental Rights in Education bill, much more frequently called the Don’t Say Gay bill, into law. While his signature was the final step for the legislation […]
The Biden Administration announced a plan to grow the nation’s affordable housing stock. According to CNN, the new policies aim at leveraging federal funds to encourage zoning changes, increase the construction of multifamily homes and support manufactured housing and […]
According to a new survey among 19,000 people in 27 countries carried out by Ipsos, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium were among the countries most supportive of the rights of same-gender couples. Maybe more […]
Transgender people in the United States are four times more likely to be the victim in a crime than cisgender people, research out of the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School […]
According to the Forbes Global 2000 published Thursday, Saudi state oil company Saudi Aramco is once again the world’s most profitable company as oil prices recovered in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
The fatal shooting of 19 elementary school students and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, triggered an outpouring of grief, but also anger across the United States. Ten years after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, the […]
The International Monetary Fund has said that it expects inflation pressures to be significant around the world in 2022. Inflation is predicted to be worse in developing economies, where price increases are projected to reach 8.7 […]
Since the Supreme Court ended the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 eviction ban on August 26, more Americans in bigger cities have found themselves out of house and home. This is according to numbers […]
With inflation standing at 8.3% year-over-year in April, everyday items are becoming pricier for U.S. consumers. Food prices in particular took some significant steps up, as seen in the example of shopping for hamburger ingredients. […]
The price of gasoline in the United States is climbing once more as markets remain in turmoil following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Additionally, the Biden administration’s embargo on Russian oil has been identified as a factor […]
New single-family homes built and sold in the U.S. are growing increasingly pricey. While in 2002, the average price of such a home was $228,700, that had increased to $391,900 in 2020. Meanwhile, consumer […]
Big cities like Hong Kong or San Francisco are well-known for their expensive real estate markets. But there are also a lot of housing markets you wouldn’t necessarily expect among the least affordable – that […]
U.S. home prices have kept on climbing in the pandemic housing boom, leaving many potential buyers wondering how they can afford a place of their own in this red-hot market. After a period of stability […]
Take a moment to breathe. Some see yoga as a fitness practice, but others believe to be a much more spiritual undertaking. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, many yoga studios have closed their doors, […]
The hype around cryptocurrencies is spreading around the world, with blockchain currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum or Binance piquing the interest of more and more people, at least in some countries. You will find more infographics at Statista […]
Reports about the superyachts of sanctioned Russian billionaires being frozen or detained came a dime a dozen in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine by the country at the end of February. After […]
According to polls by Gallup, President Joe Biden’s approval rating stood at 42 percent most recently after having stagnated at a low level for several months. The rating is sticking despite much higher approval of […]
The abortion rate in the U.S. has been in steady decline since the 1990s, and both proponents of abortion and anti-abortion activists credit this to the passing of laws restricting women’s access to the procedure, according […]
According to a newly released report by the American Lung Association, the number of Americans exposed to unhealthy spikes in air pollution has been constantly rising, taking a jump up in the latest observation period of 2018 to […]
A million seconds are close to 12 days, and a billion seconds amount to almost 32 years. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Tesla founder Elon Musk has accumulated a net worth of some $238 […]
April is Stress Awareness Month. Worry about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is predictably bearing down on the minds of Americans most heavily, relegating the biggest stressor of former years, worry about health care, to rank two. According […]
There are only 12 countries in the world which offer full legal protections to women, according to the report Women, Business and the Law 2022, recently published by the World Bank. Scores were given to countries […]
Nobody knows when the United States Supreme Court will hand down its decision on abortion rights, but when it does, it is likely to cause a storm. Based on the decisions made by the majority conservative […]