Just the social facts, ma'am

One of my first posts on this blog (and the most viewed, according to Google) was about how knowledge of important historical figures grew...

For some people, the Postal Service is a byword for inefficiency.  In a year-end appeal for funding, the conservative magazine Commentary sa...

The Federal Election Commission keeps records of donations of $250 or more.  An organization called Splunk4Good has organized the data int...

Thomas Edsall had a column entitled " The Persistence of Racial Resentment ," in which he reported on research suggesting that par...

In a recent post , I discussed a survey that found that liberals were a little more likely to say that conservatives shared their values an...

A few weeks ago, I had a post about a series of questions on whether "young people today" had as strong a sense of right and wro...

In a recent post, I compared nations and found no evidence that ones with more inequality are recovering more slowly from the recession.  Th...