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Two articles that came across my twitter feed recently: "Biological evidence that Jesus actually was...

Chreasters, if you're not familiar with the phrase, are those people who show up for...

To read an article in the Times, or the Post, or the WSJ? In the...

Really, this is just an invitation for reader comments. At what age, if you have...

It's cookie-baking time, or, specifically, Plätzchen-baking time, traditional German Christmas cookies. These are not super-sugary.  It's...

Today, the UN voted by a margin of 128 - 9, with 35 abstentions, "in...

Three articles that I wanted to share, each of which doesn't individually merit its own...

So in my twitter feed today was a New York Times editorial lamenting the benefit...

Well, what do you know?  I'm not the only one staring at GSS data on...

So my mom and dad, in their late 70s, have a computer, which mom uses...

This is it! The book you've been waiting for, forecasting 33 years into the future...

Because I finally found out how to access survey data on church attendance!  This is...

It's now something that's been observed repeatedly:  marriage is increasingly a middle/upper-class status.  There are...

Will Franken resign, or won't he?  It won't matter much to Minnesota voters, because Franken...

The rules: You, my readers, will nominate.  It should follow the Time norms, the person...

  So after spending enough time working through iGen yesterday that I felt like I...

Subtitled "Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy --...

in the comments, that is? For context, my husband and I have been working our...

So back a year ago, I wrote about how we replaced my husband's car, or,...

Every year, Gallup asks the question, is the amount of taxes paid by low-, middle-,...

Remember the Women's Christian Temperance Union?  I should remember more of it than I do,...

That's the headline at the Washington Post today:  "Even sex is in crisis in Venezuela,...

This is all over the news this morning, e.g., at the Wall Street Journal (an...

Here's the background: Back in 2015, the Illinois State Supreme Court ruled that a 2013 public...

So I've generally been a fan of proportional representation in elections.  After all, imagine if...

So this was a tweet from Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist: Which motivated me...

So last week I wrote a little blogpost expressing my irritation at the Chicken Little...

So we've finally made it past the college application process, coached my son through essays,...

That's what Marco Rubio has been pitching on Twitter: and he's not the only one....

Here are a few further thoughts on the Roy Moore issue. Voters in Alabama are...