… Back in 1970, only 11% of Americans 25-or-older had a bachelor’s degree. The number has risen every decade to roughly 38% in 2021, according to the data from the Census’s Current Population Survey. The jump since 2010 has been especially sharp and one of the big drivers of that […] Read more »
American democracy is cracking. These forces help explain why.
In a country where the search for common ground is increasingly elusive, many Americans can agree on this: They believe the political system is broken and that it fails to represent them. They aren’t wrong. Faced with big and challenging problems — climate, immigration, inequality, guns, debt and deficits — […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Majority thinks Trump did something illegal, yet say investigations politically motivated
In connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election, over half of registered voters think former President Donald Trump did something illegal. That’s according to a new Fox News Poll conducted before Trump and 18 others were indicted in Georgia for alleged efforts to challenge his 2020 election defeat in […] Read more »
Abortion Is Inflaming the GOP’s Biggest Electoral Problem
The escalating political struggle over abortion is compounding the GOP’s challenges in the nation’s largest and most economically vibrant metropolitan areas. The biggest counties in Ohio voted last week overwhelmingly against the ballot initiative pushed by Republicans and anti-abortion forces to raise the threshold for passing future amendments to the […] Read more »
Democrats aren’t the only ones voting for abortion rights, Ohio shows
The fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision continued last week in Ohio where voters defeated a plan that would have made it more difficult to change the state constitution, with an amendment aimed at securing abortion rights on the ballot this fall. For years abortion has been thought […] Read more »
Who likes Donald Trump? Lots of Republicans, but especially Hispanic voters, plus very rural and very conservative people
Former President Donald Trump greets supporters following a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona. Isaac Brekken/Getty Images Jonathan Schulman, Northwestern University and Matthew A Baum, Harvard Kennedy School Despite multiple state and federal indictments, recent polling indicates that former President Donald Trump retains a commanding lead in the race for the […] Read more »