Just the social facts, ma'am

A letter to the New York Times on Sunday protested against the language in the article in public opinion towards redistribution mentioned in...

The New York Times has had several articles recently noting that growing inequality over the last 40 years hasn't led to growing suppo...

I was surprised by the results on educational mobility in my earlier post on the subject  , so I did some more investigation.   People progr...

In a recent article , Thomas Edsall gave a graph showing that the percentage of people saying that religion was losing influence had increas...

This is a follow-up to my post of a couple of week s ago.  In the general media, I've encountered a lot of claims that educational mobi...

Scott Walker, an all-but-declared candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, didn't graduate from college.  That's unusua...

In March 1951, the Gallup Poll had a question in which they gave people a picture (at that time, the polls were done in person rather than o...