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By most accounts, this presidential election will be close. We don’t have the kinds of landslide elections we had in 1936, 1972, or 1984. Instead, we have elections that come down to a handful of swing states and slivers of the electorate within those states. The landmark book Insecure Majorities by my colleague, Princeton University […]
We often overestimate the number of immigrants in our own countries. Take the United States, for instance. The average American believes a whopping 33% of the population is foreign-born. Yet, official government figures paint a different picture: the actual percentage is closer to 15%. That’s less than half of what people think. Japan presents a […]