Just the social facts, ma'am

On Sunday, Nicholas Kristof mentioned a survey question on whether "poor people today have it easy because they can get government ben...

Since several of my recent posts have involved complicated calculations, it seems like time for a straightforward report of percentages.  In...

I hadn't worked with the DW-Nominate scores before my last post:  I just knew in a general way how they were constructed.  According to ...

Fifty years ago, almost all of the senators from the South were Democrats--today, only two (out of twenty-two) are.  But many accounts of th...

In April 1965, the Gallup Poll asked "In some places in the nation, there have been charges of police brutality.  Do you think there is...

Paul Krugman gave some statistics today on the rate of change in government purchases and economic growth in 33 countries from 2010 to 2014....

Although things have picked up recently, the recovery from the 2007-8 recession has been slow. Why?  One answer is offered by Edward Lazear ...