US society

Doing about as much with a lot less.

The musical about Martin Shkreli is silly and fun, as long as you don’t think too much about everything that has happened in America since his arrest.

Even if you trust consumer sentiment data, there is little to suggest that the improvement in expectations will lead to significantly more spending.

Oh, to be young, rich, male, and heavily indebted.

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: