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So I read an interesting article on our favorite data analysis website, 538. So what do you all think about this seeming trend over the last 70 or so years? The effect seems particularly pronounced among Republicans who shift leftward over time. Outside of the error on the Korematsu case...

An honest and open-ended question - why do we as a society look down upon hypocrisy like we do? Hypocrisy means people are willing to do what is necessary. If someone fails to hold up their position/moral standard/etc. but hypocrisy alone shouldn't be enough to invalidate a standard of...

If somehow you could randomly bring back any one extinct species back to where it lived historically, what would it be and why? For me it would have to be the Carolina parakeet, I know a pretty mundane choice, but we don't have any semi-large bird flocks it feels like in this part of the...

I was reading through some things when I came across this (http://freakonomics.com/2008/09/22/who-serves-in-the-military-today/) from the Freakonomics website, which states that the middle class and upper class are over-represented in the military compared to individuals with low-income...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/11/us/politics/document-text-of-obamas-resolution-to-authorize-military-force-against-isis.html?_r=0 The proposal would grant our forces 3 years to theoretically get involved in ground operations. While we wouldn't probably get involved in any major...

Since you are the resident expert on Poland I hope you don't mind me asking a non-related question that I have been wondering about. The germanization of the Baltic sea (including Poland and the Baltic states in the 12th-13th centuries following the northern crusades) seems to me to have...

So Kim Jong Un hasn't been seen in a month and a couple of things seem to suggest something odd (well beyond the usual) for North Korea is going on. Contradicting reports of Kim Jong Un having gout or broken his ankles don't seem like they adequately explain his disappearance. So why has best...

I have been reading books about Chavez and have found that recent research/literature is seemingly painting a negative image of Cesar Chavez. Chavez split from the CSO believing that established unions/organizations were doing basically nothing for farmworkers. Miriam Pawel and Matthew Garcia...

I find this an interesting subject. When center left politicians in the US propose policy options, we have all heard calls of "Socialism" before. I am curious when the word/term itself became a taboo in general. You had Eugene Debs at one point who managed to gain 4-7% of the US vote at one...

Just as the title says - as I haven't really paid too much attention to this section of the forums in a while. As many of you might know, the Pueblo were intended to be one of the civs released in Brave New World instead of the Shoshone. From what 2K told us they had leader art and when they...

Just curious about how permit applications are for building houses and septic tanks on private-ish property in National Forests. What about permits for commercial experiences (IE renting, transforming homes into hotels, creating small shops, etc.) I don't own any property in any national...

President Buchanan has been spineless in getting the deep south back in line. Outside of declaring secession illegal, the only symbolic act Buchanan was willing to take was send some re-enforcement to Fort Sumter. In February the deep South chose Jefferson Davis to become the president of the...

Simple question - do you consider yourself a Southerner, Northerner, Eastern, Westerosi, etc. of the country you live in? Do think such vague regional identifications are appropriate for where you live and why? Or do you not agree with this kind of identification. And if you do feel some...

Has the science issue (the +5% per city founded) from BNW been addressed yet. As a whole it made going wide completely illogical from a mathematical sense in most cases and therefore led to optimal human points of creating only a few cities (say 3-5) in Multiplayer. Effectively, creating new...

So in the latest twist of jim crow laws from Alabama, we find the institution of marriage under attack. Illegal, probably - but its Alabama nonetheless. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/17/alabama-countiesdenyingmarriagelicensestoundocumentedresidents.html Frankly this is...

So since apparently the nationalists migrated outside of World History, I just thought I'd ask as a whole: Should we really have further disintegration of various states into smaller nations, or as a whole wouldn't it better in most circumstances for greater unification. I thought of titling...

So random thread, if we assumed time travel were a real thing and only you were able to do it - if you were to be sent back in time to when he who shall not be named was a child, what would you do? Would killing someone to save millions be the right thing to do? Or would you try and change...

http://news.msn.com/us/americans-using-internet-to-abandon-adopted-children Wow... I don't know what to say. People really give up on each other way too easily, its shameful but indicative Either way, why do you all think laws haven't been placed to prevent/screen these kind of adoptions...

So apparently Tesla has reached a 20 Billion dollar market evaluation. I just have to say one thing... What the hell? How??? Its a great up and coming company sure to change the market but it apparently now has a higher valuation than Mazda, Shizuku, or Mitsubishi. For context GM has a...

I just want to know what were your best culture victories ever. My record best was a Byzantine Immortal win (standard pace) on turn 278 :goodjob: I really enjoyed that game but I am curious how it compares in general