Not An Excuse But An Explanation

A piece in "The Week"  by Matthew Walther offers an explanation for how "deplorable" Trump supporters got to be so heart...

The Movement Politics Threshold

A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follo...

Evangelicals Have Alienated The Young

It isn't just Republicans who have screwed the pooch by alienating young adults. Evangelicals have also seen their ranks dramatically re...

The Kids Are All Right

For over a decade, young people have been voting overwhelmingly for progressives and, more importantly, telling pollsters that they identify...

Where Do Non-Religious People Live?

The blue areas are more secular, while the brown areas have the fewest secular people.

An Obamacare Critic's Concerns Considered

A friend of mine reports this exchange on the Facebook page of her Congressman (emphasis mine): So today, as I often do, I posted a pointed...

White Women Shift Dramatically From GOP To Democratic Party

In the Presidential election in 2016, white women (who made up 36% of all voters in 2016) preferred Trump over Clinton by 9 percentage point...

Fragmentary Facts and Hypotheses About Identity And More

This post will proceed to set forth some facts and some factually supported theories that are related to each other, without necessarily ass...