Despite an increased conversation around the gender disparity within country music, female voices make up only 10 percent of "country music culture," a new study finds. That number represents the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A quick look at the numbers reveals that they aren’t all bailed-out Wall Street execs ...

Aspen Mayor Steve Skadron at the base of Aspen Mountain. Aspen is a place known for jet-setters come from across the world to ski and play. And where worker bees come from across the Roaring Fork ...

The thrill of new highs in NVIDIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust and Apple and their positive effect on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are undercut by underlying breadth indicators. The ...

Is federal spending on the military about 50 times higher than on food stamps? That’s the message of a pie chart now circulating on the Internet. The pie chart is headlined, "Look closely at this ...

Below is a chart of total government spending (federal, state and local) as a share of GDP, going all the way back to 1929, the first year for which Bureau of Economic Analysis Data are available.

Once again the rich are getting richer as the poor get poorer in America. Although rich people took a hit in the financial crisis, the stock market has recovered strongly. Main Street has not: Median ...

Smartphones continue gaining ground with online travel bookings, albeit slowly, and mobile web still outpaces what can be clunky mobile app user experiences. Travelers that use their mobile devices to ...

Do you know the happiness pie chart? If you’ve read a book or listened to a talk about happiness in the past 15 years, there’s a good chance you heard that 50 percent of our happiness is determined by ...

The chart above (thanks to Olivier Ballou) is an update of a chart we produced last year about this time, and shows the percent changes since January 1997 in the prices of selected consumer goods and ...