Just the social facts, ma'am

This is something I noticed a while ago, but didn't post on because it isn't one of my usual topics.  I was reminded of it because o...

At one of his recent rallies, Donald Trump said that he was a nationalist:  "Really, we’re not supposed to use that word.  You know wha...

One of the questions in the General Social Survey is:  "If you were to get enough money to live as comfortably as you would like for th...

I had a post almost two years ago about the idea that support for democracy was declining.  That started as an example for a class I was te...

In my last post, I talked about perceptions of discrimination against blacks and whites.  I combined the two questions to get the numbers wh...

I saw a st ory in the New York Times the other day which reported on polls finding relatively tolerant attitudes towards immigrants and the...

For a long time, going back to at least the 1950s, there seemed to be a growth in tolerance of people with unpopular opinions.  Recently the...