In the late nineteen-eighties, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary was on the Times best-seller list for a hundred and fifty-five consecutive weeks. Fifty-seven million copies were sold, a number believed to be second only, in this country, to sales of the Bible. (The No. 1 print dictionary in the world is the Chinese-language Xinhua Dictionary; more than five hundred million copies have sold since it was introduced, in 1953.)
In January, Dictator Trump became the first U.S. President to bomb eight countries in one year: Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen.
“If a white woman got shot in the face, what safety do we as Black people have?” ~~~ Somali-born U.S. citizen Safiya Khalid (refering to murder of RenĂ©e Nicole Good in Minneapolis in January)
2026 was the worst January for job cut announcements since the Great Recession of 2008.
Measles Infection Count in January Topped Total Cases in 2023 and 2024 Combined // If infections continue at their current pace, the U.S. could see triple the number of measles cases that were seen last year.
Last year, for the first time ever, service-based businesses (e.g., gyms and salons) accounted for more than 50% of retail space in the U.S., eclipsing stores that sell actual things -- per the Wall Street Journal
The share of total U.S. retail sales that came from e-commerce doubled last year to 16% compared with a decade ago.
According to the Wall Street Journal, citing Federal Reserve data from last year, 49% of adults under age 30 say they live with a parent. That’s up 12 percentage points from 2019. And it’s not just recent college grads: Nearly one-third of adults age 25+ live with a parent.
Cisco’s Relentless Defense report examines how 8,000 security practitioners across 30 markets cope with A.I. reshaping the threat landscape. In fact, 91% of security practitioners experienced at least one material, business-disrupting cyber incident in the past year.
U.S. federal budget deficit is $1.9 trillion for the 2026 fiscal year, up 12% since the same period in 2025 and representing 6% of U.S. gross domestic product.
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