Tomorrow’s cover today: the union’s troubled state. A strikingly unaudacious speech from Barack Obama failed to address America’s problems.
Daily chart: wildlife mortality events. On New Year’s Eve in Arkansas, 3000 blackbirds fell from the sky. The incident was alarming, yet not unprecedented: our chart shows the incidents that caused the most wildlife fatalities in 2010.
Sure, there is that. But, there also is this.
Daily Chart: comparing American states to countries. If Connecticut were a country, it would be the third best place to live in the world.
Daily Chart: American opinion on gay marriage For the first time since the Pew Research Centre began conducting polls on the subject in 1995, fewer than half of Americans (48%) are opposed to gay marriage, while 42% are in favour.
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Daily Chart: Graduates in low-skilled jobs. Feeling undervalued and over-educated? Join the club. Young graduates living in Spain and Canada are particularly likely to end up taking low-skilled work, while graduates from Britain and America are the best paid in the world.
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How America’s opinion of the Iraq war has changed, tracked each month since 2003. Where do you stand now?
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