It’s been an incredibly busy year—the first full year the Survey Center on American Life has been up and operating. We’ve conducted surveys that identified concerning levels of support for political violence, the religious tinge to conspiracy theories, and a nationwide friendship recession. I’m grateful to everyone who follows our work. If you value this work, please tell your friends or family members to subscribe to this newsletter, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook. There’s lots more to come in 2022!
To round out the year, I’m sharing my top 10 list of the most revealing and arresting charts documenting changes to American life in 2021. Although many of these are based on our own survey work, we do not have a monopoly on producing insightful charts and compelling visualizations, so I included a few other sources as well.
