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Although many people are trying to explain Donald Trump's popularity, there's not much information about who  supports him.  The mos...

A couple of years ago, I gave figures for a question on whether blacks "are receiving too many special advantages, receiving fair trea...

As promised in my last post, here are the rationales for the probabilities I gave for the Republican nomination.  On Jeb Bush, I'm just ...

Paul Krugman questions what he sees as the conventional conservative and liberal explanations of Donald Trumps support and offers one of hi...

I wasn't going to post again this soon, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to use this title.   Justin Wolfers objects to Fox...

Liberals often charge that conservatives lack compassion--that they don't care about the poor, or don't think about what it's li...

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