The perennially aired holiday film, Home Alone, features an eight year old whose parents accidentally leave him home from a family Christmas vacation. The boy manages to go shopping, do laundry and thwart would-be robbers all by himself, with slapstick tricks that delighted my own eight-year old son. That level of independence is clearly Hollywood […]
read moreAutumn is my favorite season. Crisp, sunny afternoons spent hiking through golden aspen in my home state of Colorado; the collective watching of college football or baseball playoffs; and breaking out those comfy sweaters for the first time in months. What’s not to love about a glorious season of color, before snow and darkness invade? […]
read more“So the kids, they dance, they shake their bones, And the politicians throwing stones…” Throwing Stones, Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead’s “Fare Thee Well” tour ends a 50 year run for the band with three final shows this weekend at Chicago’s Soldier Field. And oh what a long, strange trip it has been. Our recent […]
read moreAmericans report attending religious services less frequently than they have in the past. The decline in the number of Americans saying they attend services “once a week or more often” and the corresponding rise in the number of Americans saying they “never” attend services has been especially noticeable over the past decade. There are strong […]
read moreWe wanted to know if Republican voters living in Blue states like California or Massachusetts are different from Republicans living in Red states like Texas or South Carolina. To answer our question, we merged together the Republican registered voters we interviewed in the 2014 NBC–WSJ surveys and broke their home states into one of three […]
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