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The Smartphone Theory of Birth Rate Decline Doesn't Hold Up

Fertility rates started falling centuries before the iPhone was introduced.

Reason

Is Conscientiousness Cratering? It Depends on How You Twist the Data.

Despite those viral charts you may have seen, conscientiousness among young people doesn't actually seem to be in "freefall."

Reason

Democrats Did Themselves No Favors by Veering Hard to the Left

Economics likely spelled doom for Harris, but extreme ideology sealed her party’s fate.

Reason

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The Crunch: who’s ahead in Australia’s polls, supermarket prices and Silicon Valley politically split

Guardian Australia launches it's new poll-tracking page. Plus: the gap between climate action and pledges

The Guardian - AU

Gen Zers are most likely to lie about who they're voting for

As voters get older, they're less to lie about who they're backing in U.S. Presidential election

Fortune

US economic growth slows, as Germany avoids recession and France gets Olympics boost – as it happened

Eurozone GDP grew by 0.4% in the last quarter, faster than expected, as Germany’s economy avoids second contraction in a row

The Guardian - UK

The Crunch: how much water and energy ChatGPT uses – and the singability of Taylor Swift songs

Why have smoke and vape shops proliferated across Australia? Plus: what data reveals about the UK rioters

The Guardian - AU

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I went to see how the Tories are handling defeat – and found Faragism and a total lack of reflection

Even after election wipeout, the Conservatives are too blinded by ideology to see their voters don’t want a Reform merger, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Democrats' Political Views Are Shifting Faster Than Republicans'

A much more liberal left is facing off with a slightly more conservative right.

Reason

Biden set to Launch Wide-Ranging Push to Win Over Latinos as Polls Show Declining Support

The program, called "Latinos con Biden-Harris," comes as recent surveys have former president Donald Trump ahead with this key demographic

Latin Times

Texas Democrat Criticizes Latino Trump Supporters, Drawing Comparison to Jews Voting for Hitler

Rep. Vicente González's statement drew strong backlash from local Republicans

Latin Times

Democrats' Advantage with Voters of Color Is at Its Lowest Point in Over Six Decades

An deep dive by the Financial Times explored the historical trend that led to the party's comparative weakness with several demographics

Latin Times

The Battle of the Sexes Turns Political

Political polarization poisons yet another area of life.

Reason

The Crunch: why it’s so hard to buy a home, penguin naps, and inequality in the US

This week’s data newsletter also looks at the effect of record immigration on Australia and the use of text on Vogue magazine covers

The Guardian - AU

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Is the UK falling behind other rich economies? Yes, but that’s only part of the story

National wealth can mask, or even create, other problems. After all, we’re more than an economy: we’re a society, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Week

Is Britain’s infrastructure failing?

“We need to talk about the dire state of British transport infrastructure.” So wrote John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter for the Financial Times (FT), on Twitter.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Salman Rushdie was right to warn us about a slippery slope on free speech

I was privileged to attend the British Book Awards on Monday. There were buckets of champagne and wine, and a three-course meal.

Tribune News Service

Scott Burns: Would you choose more money if it meant a shorter life for someone else?

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Editorial: Declining American pride

In Hampton Roads, a place steeped in American history and proud of its rich military tradition, patriotism and a commitment to the national character are points of pride. But recent polling suggests that the region may be an outlier compared to the rest of the country.

Fortune

Larry Summers: Danger of U.S. mortality 'transcends politics'

U.S. mortality data was "especially scary remembering that demographics were the best early warning on the collapse of the USSR,” Summers tweeted.

The Independent UK

Millennials are becoming less conservative as they age, new data finds

‘Millennials and Generation Z are going to save the world,’ one Twitter user writes

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