Though the crime rate in the United States has fallen sharply over the past quarter-century, our federal and state prison population has been frozen for nearly a decade at a historic high of 1.6 million. By one estimate, America has 5 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of its pri

What if gridlock is the only thing keeping the United States together?

The one-gun household is disappearing from American life along with one-car garages single-family homes with single family bathrooms and other bygone markers of the middle class That seems to be the best explanation for polling data showing that the percentage of homes with guns has dropped sign

How we define poverty has political implications.

Secrecy feeds into distrust that already corrodes our election system

The latest (Un)Conventional Wisdom, from politics blogger Robert David Sullivan.