Just the social facts, ma'am

 My last post noted that although confidence in the military had increased since the 1970s, it had declined in the last few years.  I wonder...

As I mentioned last time, there are some exceptions to the general pattern of declining confidence in institutions.  One is small business: ...

 In his final column for the New York Times , Paul Krugman talks about a change from when he started writing it in January 2000:    "W...

It's now pretty widely agreed that schools were too slow to return to in-person instruction during the Covid epidemic: "remote lear...

 A few weeks ago, I had a post on the geographical pattern of party support in the 2020 and 2024 elections  at the state level.  By historic...

In my view, the 2024 election was primarily a judgment on the Biden administration's record.  There always is a retrospective element in...

 There have been a number of questions of the form "what kind of president X will be [has been]:  great, good, average, poor, or terrib...