All About America explores American culture, politics, trends, history, ideals and places of interest. A decadeslong trend toward secularization, which has come more slowly to America than many other developed countries, appears to be picking up speed in the United States, according to polling and other evidence. In 1965, a Gallup poll found that 70% of respondents […]
Human footprints preserved in mud at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest that humans arrived there — possibly via Alaska — at least 21,000 years ago. No one alive today knows how people got that deep into North America from Asia so long ago. But a team of scientists has proposed winter sea […]
“Without significant and sustained federal investments to make housing affordable for people with the lowest incomes, the affordable housing and homelessness crises in this country will only continue to worsen,” warned one campaigner. The number of people in shelters, temporary housing, and unsheltered settings across the United States set a new record this year, “largely […]