America is made up of a patchwork of different opinions, voices and people who have come from every corner of the planet. From such diversity, politicians, historians and ordinary people often ask and debate the question: What unites the country? While it’s unlikely such a big question will be answered soon, breakthrough techniques in data analysis are now able to reveal the issues and events that captivate and unite millions of Americans at any given time. One way researchers do this is by looking at data from billions of anonymous searches conducted on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. The resulting lists