… It’s easy to forget this, or to believe that it’s no longer possible, but there are places where partisanship wobbles; where some other powerful force, value or experience competes with party loyalty and pushes the numbers around. Recent polling suggests that Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump […] Read more »
This new poll shows our looming Mueller mess
We’re (apparently) nearing the end of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s possible ties to Russia, and the current degree of confusion and misinformation bodes very poorly for any kind of widely-accepted resolution. A new Washington Post-Schar School poll expands on the somewhat limited […] Read more »
Americans view Mueller as more credible than Trump, but views of his probe are scattered
As the special counsel investigation seems to be nearing its final stage, Americans view Robert S. Mueller III as far more credible than President Trump, but the public has scattered and partisan perceptions of Mueller’s motives and what he has found so far, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School […] Read more »
Kathleen Hall Jamieson: Digital War, Espionage, and Dirty Tricks
On this episode of The Open Mind, we’re delighted to welcome back the foremost expert on American political communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press has published her newest work, “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President – What We Don’t, Can’t and Do Know.” … The […] Read more »
Red town, blue town
Last week I read a column by Timothy Egan about books by J. D. Vance and Tara Westover, which he said were “guides to a Trumpland that is terra incognita to most Americans.” Vance grew up in southern Ohio and Westover grew up in Idaho. A couple of days later, […] Read more »
Why Fears of Fake News Are Overhyped
After the shock of the 2016 presidential election, many Americans found psychological refuge in a simple explanation for why Donald Trump won: “fake news.” False or misleading information published by dubious for-profit websites had spread widely on Facebook, reaching millions of people in the final months of the campaign. This […] Read more »