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Are You There God? It’s Us, Googling

By Michael Schulson

…elated to penis-related searches (67:100 for those keeping score). This Sunday, Stephens-Davidowitz turned his attention to God. Some of the patterns he documents are predictable, such as the steep reduction in “Google searches for churches,” yet more evidence of the increasing number of “nones,” or that “searches related to the Bible, God, Jesus Christ, church and prayer are all highly concentrated in the Bible Belt. They rise on Sunday everywher…

How the Politics of the 1890s Explain the GOP’s Health Care Woes

By Patricia Miller

…ns of economic policy. At the time, like a political version of “Freaky Friday,” the personalities of the two major political parties were reversed, Under the leadership of Grover Cleveland, the “Bourbon” Democrats were the party of big business, small government and states’ rights. The Republicans were just emerging from the political wilderness and coalescing into what would become the activist party of the Progressive era, in favor of expanded…