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Most Americans are wrong about crime
Category: News & Politics
Crime up or crime down [click] [click] [click click click] in the fall of 2022, we conducted 100 interviews. new york, seattle, chicago, philadelphia. hanna love: she researches cities and public safety at the brookings institution. what we overwhelmingly heard from folks was, fear of crime in downtown... Read more
How the rich avoid paying taxes
Category: News & Politics
This is warren buffett, one of the richest people in the world. thanks to the company he runs — berkshire hathaway. basically, it’s a holding company that just owns a bunch of other companies: geico, dairy queen, a huge railroad. as well as lots of stock in other companies, like apple and cocacola.... Read more
Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?
Category: News & Politics
Back in 2017, paris mayor anne hidalgo reinforced one thing in the city's final push to host the 2024 summer olympics: that its famous river, the seine, would be a key fixture of the games, including an historic olympics opening ceremony, the first held outside of a stadium. for which french officials... Read more
How Michigan explains American politics
Category: News & Politics
The blue wall these 18 states, along with washington, dc, for a long time, were known as “the blue wall.” and we called it that because, starting in 1992, each one of those places voted for a democrat for president, again, and again, and again, and, well actually-- “the blue wall, right?!” in 2016,... Read more