Just the social facts, ma'am

1.  On Sunday, the New York Times had a piece by Alec MacGillis called "Who Turned My Blue State Red?" on the question of why poo...

The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, despite its ominous-sounding name, is just a survey focusing on health.  It asks people for ...

A few days ago, the New York Times had a story called " Boxing is a brutal, fading sport.  Could football be next? "  It pointed o...

Paul Krugman recently had a column asking why Republicans claim that they will deliver faster economic growth, even though growth has actua...

Since my series of posts on changes the relationship between political views and happiness trailed off into "something happened, but it...

In my last post, I said that the relationship between political views and happiness changed over time and that I'd have to think before ...

This post is inspired by Andrew Gelman's comment on a previous post about partisanship and satisfaction with various things.   Andrew no...