Just the social facts, ma'am

On Sunday, Nicholas Kristof had a column saying that Americans don't know much about religion.  The two specific items he mentioned we...

Larry Bartels has an article entitled " US is a world leader is class conflict over government spending. "  The data behind his cl...

Thomas Edsall had a strange piece in the New York Times recently.  It starts with a good question--why the difference in the trajectories o...

In 2002, a Pew survey asked people, "On balance, do you think the current welfare system changes things for the better by helping peopl...

Writing in the New Yorker a few weeks ago, Jill Lepore noted that polls now show that people overwhelmingly say yes when asked if they woul...

An article in the New York Times a few days ago said "a December Pew poll revealed the lowest level of public support for an active Am...

In 1994, a Roper Reports survey listed a number of occupations, and for each one asked if "people in that occupation are generally over...