Just the social facts, ma'am

 The Washington Post recently had a story called “Black Americans More Upbeat but Fear Worsening Racism, poll finds.”  As the title shows, t...

Americans have become less committed to organized religion in the past few decades.  But does that mean that we are becoming more secular or...

The New York Times has had roundtable discussions of presidential candidates as they enter the race, and had one on Tim Scott a couple of we...

My last post said that the low ratings of current economic conditions weren't the result of increased partisanship--it's not just Re...

 Paul Krugman recently asked why people have negative views of the economy even though economic conditions are pretty good.  He suggested th...

 In my last post, I observed that the 21st century increase in killings by police seemed to differ by type of place:  according to the Censu...

 The figures presented in my last post (taken from a n article in The Lancet ) indicated that killings by police increased between the 2000s...