Survey-weighted, sourced essays and apps built from the same rigorous public data — GSS, ANES, CES, CDC, Census, and more.
66 essays · 12 public institutions · 52 years of surveys · every figure weighted, every claim sourced
A Black president and a killing in Minneapolis were supposed to bend the arc of American racial opinion. The survey record says one barely registered — and the other moved the country sharply, briefly, and only on one side of the aisle.
GSS + ANES (1972–2024)
CES (2008–2024)
Precinct returns · 2016–2024
Between 2008 and 2019 — before anyone had heard of COVID-19 — the share of humanity reporting a stressful day rose by ten percentage points. Enjoyment never moved.
Gallup World Poll (2008–2019)
GSS (1972–2024)
Gallup Daily Poll (2009–2017)
You would expect the map of American disability to be a map of where old people live. It is not — disability nearly doubles from the most to the least advantaged neighborhoods, while the elderly are spread evenly across both.
CDC PLACES 2024
CDC PLACES 2024
CDC WONDER · Linked Birth/Infant Death (2018)
Across 147 countries, money reliably buys the feeling of financial sufficiency — and the feeling never tops out. But whole regions feel far richer, or poorer, than their income says they should.
Gallup World Poll (2016–2020)
Federal Reserve · Survey of Household Economics (SHED)
In the 1970s American women called themselves happier than men. A famous study watched that lead vanish. Extend the data eighteen more years and the decline doesn't continue — it dissolves into noise.
GSS (1972–2024)
Gallup (2.46M interviews)
Gallup World Poll · 143 countries
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