Just the social facts, ma'am

Two years ago, not many people thought that Donald Trump would get the Republican nomination.  In late July, a McClatchy/Marist College poll...

I have seen a number of articles challenging the "myth" that millennials are less racist than previous generations, and the rally ...

In the New York Times last week, Nate Cohn writes "The polls don’t tell a clear story [about public opinion on affirmative action]. So...

In last Sunday's New York Times, Paul Campos (a professor at the University of Colorado law school) says that " the gap between bla...

This came to mind when I was composing a post in which I said that "American society has become a lot more egalitarian over the last 60...

As discussed in my last post, spending directed at helping the poor has increased, not declined, in the "neoliberal period" (since...

In an interview published in the New York Times last week , Noam Chomsky spoke of "the shift of both parties to the right during the n...