The great suckers' game of 'elite' college admissions. This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opi…

Over at the American Communities Project we are exploring the ideas and issues that are uniting and dividing the nation’s different communities. instagram.com/reel/C6bu8XWRj…

Don’t always have three games in March, but this is nonetheless interesting: The Tigers’ 17 wins before May are the second most in franchise history

The The Wall Street Journal using the American Communities Project to better understand the 2024 primary vote for Nikki Haley. Keep an eye on those Exurbs this fall. wsj.com/politics/elect…

The nation's infrastructure concerns linger and they are particularly sharp in some communities, with poor conditions being the biggest concern everywhere. From the American Communities Project . americancommunities.org/how-americans-…

Columbia Student Protesters Take Over Campus Building wsj.com/us-news/columb…

I asked AI to make Mick Jagger a Muppet and it did not disappoint me …

Again, the differences in the 2024 polling really have me shaking my head.

There are 275,000+ fans in attendance tonight, breaking the all-time Day One Draft record set in 2018 in Nashville of 200,000+, per the NFL.

Well done, Detroit. #NFLdraft

📸: Mandi Wright

America in Detroit

Talking to Americans reveals the diversity behind the shared opinion ‘the country is on the wrong track’ theconversation.com/talking-to-ame… via The Conversation U.S.

before the pandemic, new england colleges had more than 2x more applicants than southwestern colleges.

at current trajectories, southwestern college applicants will surpass new england in two years.

Republicans, but not Democrats, are more likely to perceive a protest as violent (especially with minimally disruptive tactics) if the cause is not ideological aligned with their party
#polisciresearch
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Logging into short-term rental websites looking at nothern resort towns.

Where do communities see institutions that share their values? Government? Big Business? The American Communities Project finds little evidence of it anywhere. Except in one area. americancommunities.org/what-are-share…

Adding to the “what’s going on in the polls” theme: A set of numbers where Michigan is the pro-Biden outlier. This year is going to be challenging poll-wise.

I have reached the point in my advancing age where I listen to Steely Dan while I work.