Christopher Groskopf
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How Americans View Biden’s Response To The Coronavirus Crisis
We’re tracking how concerned Americans are about COVID-19, the economy and President Biden’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
How Concerned Are Americans About The Coronavirus?
We’re tracking how concerned Americans are about COVID-19, the economy and President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. → Read More
The 56 Best — And Weirdest — Charts We Made In 2019
Over the past year FiveThirtyEight Visual Journalists have created hundreds of original charts and graphics. To mark the close of the year we are continuing our… → Read More
How the internet changed the market for sex
“Elle” is a 63-year-old sex worker. She’s been at it for decades, and what makes her extraordinary isn’t just her longevity in the business, but her ability to adapt to a changing market. Sex work is as old as civilization, but in the past 20 years the market for illegal sex services has undergone a... → Read More
Our analysis of five decades of sex research shows an evolving spectrum of sexual norms
One way to understand long-term trends in medical and health research is to analyze the language used in massive bodies of literature produced in the different fields. To better understand the shifting focus of sex research since the field was established, we downloaded (with permission) 4,545 articles published in the Journal of Sex Research and... → Read More
This tool lets you find the Confederate monument closest to you
Is a statue of Robert E. Lee lurking in your neighborhood? Statues, memorials and even schools are named in honor of the General who fought and failed to win independence in the US Civil War. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are more than 1,500 symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces across America,... → Read More
Who said it? A quiz on Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s nuclear war of words
US president Donald Trump took his famously bombastic rhetoric to new levels in his response to the discovery of yet another North Korean military development. Future threats by Pyongyang, he warned on Aug. 8, "will be met with fire, fury, and, frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before." A spokesman for North... → Read More
Personal bankruptcies are down 50% in the US. Thanks, Obamacare?
For decades, starting in the 1980s and up to the mid-2000s, medical bills rose and rose to become one of the largest causes of personal bankruptcy filings in the United States which increased right alongside it. But after hitting record levels in 2005 (paywall), personal bankruptcy filings are are now in their twelfth straight year of... → Read More
There are more programming jobs than ever outside of Silicon Valley
For decades, the software industry has been synonymous with Silicon Valley. That's an increasingly dated concept, as programming jobs have spread across the US and pooled in other metro areas in the country. Just as the work of Wall Street no longer happens just on Wall Street, programming is now happening all over the US.... → Read More
Donald Trump believes manufacturing equals prosperity. Our data analysis proves him wrong
We collected years of data for every state and province in North America, and the conclusion is clear: US president Donald Trump's belief that manufacturing equals prosperity doesn't hold up. As Trump tells it, it was the migration of American factories overseas that snatched middle-class existence from hard-working Americans. On July 17 he launched "Made... → Read More
Map: Donald Trump's "son of a bitch" health care bill is meanest to his most critical voters
An $834 billion cut to Medicaid, the government's health insurance for the poor, is the biggest single change in the health-care bill that the US House of Representatives passed in May and the US Senate is currently considering. The Congressional Budget Office estimated this cut would leave 14 million more low-income Americans without coverage by 2026 than... → Read More
Amazon buying Whole Foods puts it right next to one-third of America’s richest households
Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. More than just a store with organic shampoos and obscure fruits, Whole Foods is a distribution network through which Amazon can now reach millions of customers—particularly the high-income, selective shoppers who are likely to live near the stores. To figure out what Amazon is getting for all... → Read More
Forget the potentially damaging lawsuit—Uber is hiring like mad for its driverless-cars business
Uber's work on driverless cars could be crippled by a single lawsuit. The suit, brought by Waymo, the self-driving car unit spun off by Google parent Alphabet, alleges that former Waymo employee Anthony Levandowski stole 14,000 confidential documents before leaving Waymo and later joining Uber. Waymo is asking the court to indefinitely halt Uber's work on driverless cars, a technology... → Read More
More Americans now work full-time from home than walk and bike to office jobs
In the United States, the past decade has been marked by booming cities, soaring rents, and a crush of young workers flocking to job-rich downtowns. Although these are heady days for pavement-pounding urbanists, a record 2.6% of American employees now go to their jobs without ever leaving their houses. That's more than walk and bike to work combined. These numbers come... → Read More
For programmers, the ultimate office perk is avoiding the office entirely
Around 8% of full-time programmers in the US work from home, and their numbers are growing fast. → Read More
If Jeff Bezos is spending a billion a year on his space venture, he just started
“My business model right now … for Blue Origin is I sell about $1 billion of Amazon stock a year and I use it to invest in Blue Origin," Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and patron of Blue Origin, a promising new space enterprise, said last week. But is that really the business model?... → Read More
How to pick a VPN to keep your internet browsing secure and private
The internet is a messy, tangled place. Your data bounces unpredictably from country to country, inviting someone to snoop on it. If you're an American, you don't even need to wait for a hacker to single you out, however. Thanks to the US Congress recently overturning an Obama-era privacy rule, your browsing history can once again be sold to the highest... → Read More
Mapped: Where American income has grown the most over the past 25 years
As the Rust Belt stagnated, coastal metropolises thrived. As Appalachia sputtered, shale country boomed. As Southern manufacturing centers shut their doors, neighboring research hubs opened theirs. These are just a few the trends that have played out in regional economies across the United States over the past 25 years. This period includes the booms of the late 1990s and... → Read More
The Trump tax: Human smugglers at the US-Mexico border are jacking up prices
US president Donald Trump is yet to lay the first brick of his proposed wall between the US and Mexico, but some smugglers are already pricing it in. Last week Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, John Kelly, boasted that the administration’s get-tough policies have pushed coyotes, as human smugglers are called, to jack up fees for getting... → Read More
The top 2% of US 21-year-olds will benefit bigly from Trumpcare
The big winners would include young lobbyists and Silicon Valley workers. → Read More