… Centered on a trio of bills Biden signed in his first two years, the president’s economic program has triggered what could become the most concentrated burst of public and private investment since the 1960s. … This surge of investment could rumble through the economy for years. The reverberations could […] Read more »
Recent Supreme Court rulings alienate the left but are hardly unpopular
After a series of key setbacks for their side on affirmative action, gay weddings and student loan debt forgiveness, Democrats are again railing against the Supreme Court. They have lumped the decisions in with perhaps the court’s most unpopular and consequential adverse ruling in recent times: the overturning of Roe […] Read more »
Why the US ‘does not get to assume that it lasts forever’
As the United States marks its 247th birthday Tuesday, questions about how many more the nation will celebrate in its current form have become ominously relevant. Possibly not since the two decades before the Civil War has America faced as much pressure on its fundamental cohesion. The greatest risk probably […] Read more »
The GOP has a glaring Mormon problem
Republicans often find themselves on the losing end of demographic shifts as the United States grows more racially diverse, better-educated and less religious. Only one long-term trend — the rapid growth of the reliably conservative Mormon Church — has consistently provided the GOP with good news. But that consolation might […] Read more »
Americans split on recent Supreme Court decisions
In polling conducted June 30-July 1, 2023—just after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, struck down the Biden student loan forgiveness plan, and ruled in favor of a web designer seeking to deny services to a same-sex couple—a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds the American public is split on the […] Read more »
Visual misinformation is widespread on Facebook – and often undercounted by researchers
If your instincts say a lot of images on Facebook are misleading, you’re right. AP Photo/Jenny Kane Yunkang Yang, Texas A&M University; Matthew Hindman, George Washington University, and Trevor Davis, Columbia University How much misinformation is on Facebook? Several studies have found that the amount of misinformation on Facebook is […] Read more »