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The Department of Government Efficiency, the federal cost-cutting initiative championed by Elon Musk, published on Monday a list of government contracts it has canceled, together amounting to about $16 billion in savings itemized on a new “wall of receipts” on its website. Almost half of those line-item savings could be attributed to a single $8…
Big cities have faced serious problems lately. But there’s little evidence those problems are what drove voters to the right in November. Source link
For some young men in particular, the populist pitches from Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump aligned with their attitudes about the ruling class. Source link
Many have encountered problems with their coverage, but the recent rage on social media is only part of the picture of Americans’ views on health care. Source link
They told us a lot about the major demographic and political trends, well before the election. Source link
An opening will probably emerge for Democrats in four years, but it may not be what the party and pundits expect today. Source link
Despite some debates in the news, Americans’ views on Santa haven’t really changed, polls show. Most parents still say he’ll visit on Christmas Eve. Source link
The Obama-Romney race in 2012 was the last in a familiar pattern in U.S. politics, which has since become defined by Donald Trump’s conservative populism. Source link
Just after Election Day, Charles Franklin, the director of the Marquette Law School Poll in Wisconsin, received a lot of requests for media interviews. “I got at least three, if not four, reporter interviews premised on: ‘The polls were wrong again. How bad were they this year?’” Dr. Franklin said. But overall, the polls had…
The number of people in the United States who develop dementia each year will double over the next 35 years to about one million annually by 2060, a new study estimates, and the number of new cases per year among Black Americans will triple. The increase will primarily be due to the growing aging population,…