… After years of being branded a racist for his inflammatory comments and actions, Trump and some of his allies are attempting to turn that label back on their critics. In the process, they have wielded their own definition of racism, one that disregards the country’s history of racial exclusion […] Read more »
Put a Black woman on the Supreme Court
The Jim Crow party is aghast because President Biden is nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court. When Ronald Reagan announced he would appoint a woman to the Court, Republicans cheered. Now when Biden says his appointment will be a Black woman, they’re jeering. Partisanship? Prejudice? Or both? CONTINUED […] Read more »
Americans Offer Gloomy State of the Nation Report
Americans’ satisfaction with a variety of aspects of U.S. society and the state of policy in key issue areas remains subdued in 2022 after falling in 2021. In fact, in only one area — acceptance of gays and lesbians — are more Americans satisfied now than were in 2020, before […] Read more »
Who will win Florida in 2024? A new poll has Biden losing to these two prominent Republicans
A new poll says President Joe Biden is struggling in the politically pivotal state of Florida, where more than half of potential voters disapprove of his handling of the economy and of his job overall. The Suffolk University/USA TODAY Network poll of likely Florida voters suggests only 39% of respondents […] Read more »
Republicans Are Trying to Suppress More Than Votes
The accelerating red-state offensive to censor what public-school students are taught about racism is emerging as a critical companion measure to proliferating race-based voter restrictions in many of the same states. The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages in red states, even as […] Read more »
The Culture Has Moved Left… So the Right has Mobilized
It’s been a depressing six months or so for the left. Aside from Covid’s persistence and the resultant chaos, the progressive agenda beyond infrastructure and re-regulation of business seems stalled; the Supreme Court is charging rightward; and anti-democratic (as well as anti-Democratic) moves are afoot in many states. Savvy political […] Read more »