As the US gets less religious, some thinkers warn that it may get more selfish as people engage less with their communities. A team of scholars decided to investigate that concern.
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Some 10,000 people are likely to give up their US passport this year, way above average. Are they fleeing COVID-19? Nasty politics? Taxes? None of the above, says an expert on American citizenship.
In the 2016 election, more than a third of Americans didn’t vote. What might be keeping them from going to the polls?
Health care, immigration and trade have been hot topics during the campaign and are likely to come up during the fifth Democratic debate.
The support for the key values that pervade the discourse about social justice is overall very strong but it may be surprising that democracy and solidarity receive less support among respondents.
Media pundits are promoting Canada as exceptional in its tolerance and diversity but the truth is, Canadians have a tendency not to be not less racist than Americans, but to be less loud about it.
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Assistant Professor, ShanghaiTech University
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Journalist, University of Virginia
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Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Princeton University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Hamilton College
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Lecturer in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Religious Studies; and English, University of Houston
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, UMass Boston
