Those Nifty ‘50s

In political debates, the 1950s are often invoked as a red flag: Vice President Biden warned last fall, for example, that then-candidate Romney’s social policy resembled a “1950s time warp.” But according to a new Brookings/PRRI report, most Americans (54 percent) actually believe that “America’s culture and way of life” were better in the ‘50s than the…