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Immigrants and some people of color are moving to the suburbs...

Grigoris Argeros, Eastern Michigan University In the traditional American image of suburbia, the majority of residents are predominately native-born white Americans, living in large single-family...

If you’re using ‘millennial’ as a meaningful measurement, you should probably...

Joseph Cabosky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill What value does the word “millennial” actually have? Americans have heard the term ad nauseum by now....

Why are private prisons controversial? 3 questions answered

John M. Eason, University of Wisconsin-Madison Editor’s note: Private prisons have long stirred controversy, most recently over their role in housing undocumented immigrants and asylum...

A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes...

Orestes 'Pat' Hastings, Colorado State University and Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley Family structure in America is sharply divided by class and race. While 84%...

23% of young black women now identify as bisexual

Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...

23% of young black women now identify as bisexual

Tristan Bridges, University of California, Santa Barbara and Mignon R. Moore, Barnard College Since 1972, social scientists have studied the General Social Survey to chart...

Why fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced

Tera R. Jordan, Iowa State University Fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced, with the rates falling 18% between 2008 and 2016. Among American adults, there...

Most of America’s rural areas are doomed to decline

David Swenson, Iowa State University Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people....

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