Just the social facts, ma'am

American politicians have always liked to talk about how they were born in a log cabin (or the contemporary equivalent) and worked their way...

In 1971, a Harris survey asked "In general, to what extent do you feel blacks are discriminated against in this country--do you feel th...

Sociologists don't get nearly as much attention in the media as other social scientists ( Justin Wolfers gives some data  and Syed Ali h...

The Eurobarometer survey mentioned in my last post shows more support for the Euro among more affluent, more educated, and younger people.  ...

An interesting feature of the discussions of the negotiations between Greece and the EU is that all right-thinking people seem to assume tha...

When the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") was passed, opinion was pretty evenly divided, but most polls showed more opposed than ...

Paul Krugman has several blog posts and a column about the negotiations between the European Union and Greece.  He argues that the demands ...