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May 13, 2013 10:31 AM IQ and the Nativist Movement

We welcome Diego von Vacano for a guest post on the purported low IQ of immigrants.**********************************************************The academic and policy worlds have been roiled by last week’s announcement that a Heritage Foundation study on the cost of immigration reform was co-authored...

By Erik Voeten

May 02, 2013 9:27 AM Keep Scientific Peer Review Free of Political Intervention

The US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is getting involved in the selection of what specific research proposals are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The chair of the House Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx) wrote a...

By Bill Gardner

April 30, 2013 12:24 PM Barack Obama on the Politicization of Science

From the President's remarks yesterday regarding the 150th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences: One of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is...

By Seth Masket

February 06, 2013 9:39 AM Why Study Social Science

Kindred Winecoff, himself a political scientist, writes in reaction to an earlier post: This is an opportunity for the social sciences to demonstrate their value by making a clear, coherent argument. Simply pointing to research on topics of possible public...

By John Sides

February 05, 2013 12:15 PM The Exaggeration of Political Polarization in America

For a few years I’ve been fascinated by the idea that, in American politics, the perception of polarization is larger than polarization itself.I’ve been interested this ever since reading Fiorina’s book which made the point that, if the positions of...

By Andrew Gelman