This spring Dr. Lee Miringoff, Director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, is bringing four distinguished guests to the Marist College campus in Poughkeepsie, New York, for public conversations about 1968. We’ll talk about the war, civil rights, political upheaval and other issues that framed 1968 and how it […] Read more »
Workplace equality stalls for women even as perceptions improve
In the last two decades, more women have taken on a role as their family’s primary breadwinner, and views of working mothers have become dramatically more positive. But when it comes to women’s actual experiences with inequality and harassment in the workplace, the more things change, the more things stay […] Read more »
Is Nancy Pelosi unpopular because she’s a woman — or because she was speaker of the House?
On March 13, Conor Lamb delighted most Democrats with his apparent upset win in the special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th Congressional District. But one of Lamb’s campaign promises had raised eyebrows: The candidate openly endorsed replacing Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats, perhaps because she has long been […] Read more »
The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Are you racist? It’s a question that makes most of us uncomfortable and defensive. … This week on Hidden Brain, we examine research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. We’ll begin with a focus on police shootings of unarmed black men. Later in the show, we look […] Read more »
Discrimination in America
A new series of polls from the Harvard Opinion Research Program is shedding light on how Americans experience discrimination on a day-to-day basis. CONT. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Read more »
Anti-Democratic Populism Caused the Dreamer Impasse
Trump planted a ticking DACA time-bomb in September and announced that Congress had six months to defuse it with a permanent legislative fix. Americans overwhelmingly want a fix. 87 percent think Dreamers should be allowed to stay in the U.S. Among Republicans, two-thirds support a path to citizenship. In an […] Read more »