US society

If all the free-thinkers in a country leave, guess who’s left?

Don’t mess with Texas. Though, if you do mess with Texas, it helps if you have some legal authority from Congress and reasonable offers for compensating its residents.

Creative efforts to detract from the standard narrative don’t hold up to scrutiny.

With all the usual caveats that attend such polls and surveys, let’s start with immigration. A Pew survey finds that American views of immigrants have improved throughout the Obama years, representing a complete reversal of what they were twenty years ago: