The share of U.S. adults who describe themselves as Christians has been declining for decades, but the U.S. Congress is about as Christian today as…
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A year ago, preparing to teach my undergraduate free speech class I found myself questioning free speech fundamentalism. Struck by the unseemly reality of free…
Young Americans have many financial obstacles placed in their way. Many older Americans like to chime in and blast younger Americans as being weak and…
Fake news--the gluten-free, lower-calorie term for what used to be called “disinformation,” “lies” and “propaganda”—played a significant role in shaping the attitudes and choices of…
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Many more Americans have considered themselves politically conservative than liberal since the early 1990s. That remained the case in 2016, when an…
If you're over fifty, brace yourself - I'm going to scare the sh*t out of you. Have you ever looked closely at the detail on…
The much-maligned anti-vaccine movement is fueled, in good part, by parents’ suspicion that childhood vaccination causes autism. The clinical term is Autism Spectrum Disorder: a…
Say what you will about Israeli political leaders, you can always count on them for one thing: They will do whatever they believe necessary to…
With his inauguration now less than three weeks away, a new survey shows a majority of the American people are far from confident that Donald…
Some anonymous wise person once observed that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. But Wolfgang Streeck,…
By now, it’s clear that religion is fading in America, as it has done in most advanced Western democracies. Dozens of surveys find identical evidence:…
President Barack Obama signed into law last week his seventh and final Pentagon spending bill, providing $619 billion to continue and expand the murderous violence…