Just the social facts, ma'am

 In 2019, I wrote about an article in the New York Times "1619 Project," which drew on a paper published in the Proceedings of th...

 In March, a survey about which values were important to people got a lot of attention.  It seemed to show that people had shifted away fr...

 A lot of people are saying that the indictments of Donald Trump have had the perverse effect of increasing his support among Republicans--f...

 A recent NY Times/Siena College poll finds Donald Trump with a big lead among Republicans, with 54% vs. 17% for Ron DeSantis and a combine...

 In my last post, I asked " why Democratic elites haven't made more effort to appeal to moderate voters on the issue [of abortion]...

 It's often said that "social issues" are more divisive than economic ones, and that increased political polarization in the U...

 Many accounts of the rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy say that his popularity collapsed after a dramatic exchange in a Senate hearing ...