Carrie Blazina

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More U.S. locations experimenting with alternative voting systems

There’s no authoritative, comprehensive source for how many U.S. cities, counties and states employ RCV or other nontraditional voting systems. But according to a Pew Research Center analysis, such systems have gained popularity in recent years.

Among many U.S. children, reading for fun has become less common, federal data shows

The shares of American 9- and 13-year-olds who say they read for fun on an almost daily basis have dropped from nearly a decade ago and are at the lowest levels since at least the mid-1980s.

Key facts about women’s suffrage around the world, a century after U.S. ratified 19th Amendment

The United States was hardly the first country to codify women’s suffrage, and barriers to vote persisted for some groups of U.S. women for decades. At least 20 nations preceded the U.S., according to a Pew Research Center analysis of women’s enfranchisement measures in 198 countries and self-administering territories.