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A white man holds a sign reading "DEFUND THE POLICE" in red lettering at a protest.

February 22, 2022

Crime, Policing, and the Racial Divide on the Left

In the wake of George Floyd’s death, “defund the police” became a rallying cry among many liberal activists. Even so, the movement never really caught on among the establishment wing of the Democratic party. Certainly, rising crime had something to do with this: The FBI found that the murder rate increased roughly 30 percent between Continue Reading →

A close up of a blinking lit red emergency vehicle light on top of a police car.

November 29, 2021

Why Crime Likely Won’t Be An Issue In The 2022 Midterms

Violent crime is up. Data from the FBI found that the murder rate increased nearly 30 percent in 2020. And homicides continue to rise in 2021 as well, if not by quite as much. Americans have noticed. Continue Reading →

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Generation Uncoupled: America's New Gender Divide and the Crisis of Human Connection

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Survey Reports

Daniel A. Cox
July 23, 2026

A Digital Divide in American Adolescence: Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience

If teenage years once represented a time of rebellion, teenagers’ lives today are marked less by pushing boundaries and more by building their own. Many teenage experiences are less common than they once were—dating, working a part-time job, and experimenting with drugs and alcohol are less common experiences. The 2026 American Teenagers Survey from the Continue Reading →

Daniel A. Cox, Jae Grace, Avery Shields
April 27, 2026

Strangers Next Door: The Decline of Neighborhood Socializing and the Class Divide in Belonging

Acknowledgment The American Enterprise Institute’s Survey Center on American Life is grateful to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its generous support of this research. As Americans spend more of their time online, the neighborhood—once a primary physical location for real-world socialization—is playing less of a central role than ever before. Since Continue Reading →

crime

Crime, Policing, and the Racial Divide on the Left

Why Crime Likely Won’t Be An Issue In The 2022 Midterms

Generation Uncoupled

Survey Reports

A Digital Divide in American Adolescence: Gender, Class, and the New Teenage Experience

Strangers Next Door: The Decline of Neighborhood Socializing and the Class Divide in Belonging

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