National and state-level polling suggest Donald Trump has a significant lead over Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential race. After a series of Republican losses…
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Donald Trump dominated the January 15, 2024, Iowa caucuses, winning 98 of 99 counties in the state. More telling, he won 51 percent of the…
January 6, 2021, was not the culmination of Donald Trump’s narcissistic embrace of conspiracies. Instead, the day was a midpoint in Trumpism and the decline of…
The Republican party is ill, and the disease comes from deep within. Where are the elected wing-nuts coming from? The voters are choosing them, suggesting that…
President Joe Biden’s first year in office was not so good. Our collective 2021 was arguably very bad, indeed. Data, as well as political and…
State and local election results in 2021 have provided pundits with a lot of fodder to make simplistic pronouncements on what voters were telling political…
Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) are merely the two most outspoken Democrats opposed to the “Build Back Better” proposals currently stuck in…
Apologies to my former students and my colleagues for committing the sin of oversimplification. I know I am using static values of population and not…
Reporter and podcaster Jesse Singal has given us a wonderful look into how and why social sciences promote junk science. The Quick Fix: Why Fad…
The concept of a minimum wage troubles me. Many nations do well without mandated minimum wages, while others do well with complex minimum wage systems.…