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August 11, 2026
Homicides fall 17% in big U.S. cities as the post-pandemic crime decline continues
Data: Major Cities Chiefs Association (MCCA); Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosViolent crime kept falling across many of the nation's largest cities through June, with homicides down 17.2% from the fi...
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August 8, 2026
Synagogues build a new security playbook as antisemitic attacks intensify
Synagogues across the U.S. are having congregants train to be volunteer security teams as antisemitic assaults hit record levels and Jewish gathering places face increasing threats.Driving the news...
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July 21, 2026
Inside a group's push for whites-only communities "heritage communities"
A white separatist group is openly planning a network of whites-only settlements across rural America that aim to withstand legal challenges by operating essentially as private clubs.Why it matters...
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July 16, 2026
Trump's deportation push is rewiring American policing, ACLU report says
President Trump's deportation campaign has expanded far beyond ICE, turning federal agents, state troopers, local police and even wildlife officers into a massive 50,000-person internal enforcement...
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July 13, 2026
From KKK halls to slave auction sites, communities rethink historic sites
A former Ku Klux Klan hall in Texas is becoming an arts center — one of several racist landmarks across the U.S. that communities are trying to turn from symbols of terror into sites of reparation....
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July 9, 2026
Survey: Latino voters' political divide is becoming an identity divide
Data: Pew Research Center; Chart: Danielle Alberti/AxiosLatino voters aren't just splitting over President Trump. They're divided over how being Latino shapes their identity in America, according t...
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July 9, 2026
The hidden costs of low-tax states
Data: U.S. Census; Note: Data for Hawai'i and Alaska starts in 1955 and 1957, respectively; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualAmerica's state governments now run on two very different tax engines: inco...
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July 7, 2026
America's missing middle: The shrinking 45-64 population
Data: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosAmerica has a missing-middle problem — and this one is demographic.Why it matters: The shrinking 45-64 popu...
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June 25, 2026
America's child population is shrinking everywhere but the South
Data: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosAmerica's child population fell by 1.8 million from 2020 to 2025 — with the under-18 population shrinking i...
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June 19, 2026
Juneteenth becomes America's quiet holiday as DEI goes underground
Juneteenth is surviving the corporate DEI backlash, even as American institutions pull back from the promises that helped elevate it.Why it matters: The holiday's staying power shows how Black hist...
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June 17, 2026
American pride has fallen off a cliff
Data: PRRI American Identity Survey, May 1-18, 2026, PRRI American Identity Report; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosA profound identity crisis has gripped America ahead of its 250th birthday: Citizen...
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June 16, 2026
Vance gives Catholic converts a bigger stage
Vice President JD Vance's memoir about his conversion to Catholicism, out Tuesday, puts a high-profile face on a small but distinctive slice of the U.S. Church.Why it matters: Parish reports have f...
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June 13, 2026
America's race categories face a stress test
The next great civil rights battle may be whether America's old racial categories can keep up with its future.Why it matters: The U.S. is heading toward a more Latino, Asian, Black immigrant and mu...
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June 13, 2026
White students now make up less than half of all Americans enrolled in school
Data: U.S. Census Bureau; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosWhite students now make up less than half of all Americans enrolled in school from nursery through graduate programs, according to an Axios a...
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June 12, 2026
America approaches 250 with its best days in doubt
Most Americans say the country's best days are behind it as the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday, even as they're personally hopeful about the future.Why it matters: A new Pew Research Center ana...
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June 8, 2026
AI is masking America's "post-literate" workforce
Millions of working Americans struggle to read at a functional level — and artificial intelligence may be helping hide it.Why it matters: Low literacy is quietly becoming a major economic drag, eve...
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June 4, 2026
The population crisis hiding in California's suburbs
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosCalifornia is losing people from suburbs year after year, revealing a deeper demographic shift reshaping A...
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June 1, 2026
AI ignores religion when you need it most — and takes sides when you ask about switching
Data: Consortium for Evaluating Faith and Ethics in AI; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosArtificial intelligence models are quietly shaping spiritual advice — often by leaving faith out.Why it matters...
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May 31, 2026
New Texans, Latino doubts about Trump cloud Paxton's Senate bid
Texas has gained more than 2.5 million new residents since 2020 — roughly the entire population of New Mexico — reshaping the electorate and injecting new uncertainty into this year's marquee Senat...
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May 30, 2026
What the 10 fastest-shrinking cities say about America
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosAs exurban cities near booming metro areas explode in growth, hundreds of U.S. communities are losing resi...
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May 27, 2026
Buyer's remorse hits Trump's Latino voters ahead of 2026 midterms
Data: UnidosUS/BSP Research/Shaw & Company; Chart: Sara Wise/AxiosOne-in-four Hispanic Trump voters saying they would not vote for him again if given the choice, according to a new UnidosUS pol...
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May 25, 2026
5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity
Pope Leo XIV is warning that the artificial intelligence race could become a new Tower of Babel — a dazzling human achievement that concentrates power, weakens truth and turns people into data poin...
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May 25, 2026
Campaigns pay the price for America's secular shift
America's fastest-growing religious group is also one of the hardest — and costliest — to reach: the "nones."Why it matters: Religiously unaffiliated Americans now make up a large and growing share...
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May 23, 2026
Neighborhood watch programs are fading in the age of Ring and Nextdoor
America's classic neighborhood watch programs are fading as AI-powered apps turn neighborhoods into digital watch zones.Why it matters: The automation of neighborhood safety with tools like Amazon'...
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May 19, 2026
A great exurban surge is reshaping America
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosThe demographic landscape of the U.S. is undergoing a dramatic outward shift as growth shifts from cities ...
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May 15, 2026
Democrats eye "hidden" Latino battlegrounds in 2026
The post-2024 narrative that Latino voters shifted right is facing its first real stress test — including in districts Republicans thought were safely red.Why it matters: The biggest immediate test...
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May 14, 2026
Pope Leo sets Catholics on collision course with AI
Pope Leo XIV is expected to sign his first encyclical as soon as Friday, positioning artificial intelligence as the defining moral and labor challenge of a new industrial revolution.Why it matters:...
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