Joe Biden might seem like the 2020 candidate of anachronism. He’s old in a party that skews young; a white, straight candidate courting an increasingly diverse electorate; an old-school liberal in a party moving to the left; and more conventionally credentialed than hot commodities such as South Bend, Ind., Mayor […] Read more »
White Republicans think whites, blacks and Hispanics face about the same amount of discrimination
There are certain aspects of racism on which all Americans agree. The Klan, for example. Using racial slurs to denigrate someone. Segregated drinking fountains and city buses. The sorts of marks of discrimination that are almost definitionally racist. Beyond that, opinions differ. While there are unquestionably race-based factors that disadvantage […] Read more »
Sharp Rise in the Share of Americans Saying Jews Face Discrimination
The public sees widespread discrimination against several racial, ethnic and religious groups in the U.S. And while most of these views are little changed over the last several years, the share of Americans saying Jews face discrimination in the U.S. has increased substantially since late 2016. … Partisan differences in […] Read more »
Black and white defines red and blue
Members of minority groups and whites in the United States often see the world through very different lenses, but politically speaking those differences are magnified by the blue/red divide, according to a new Pew Research survey. And that partisan split may be even more important in Washington. The Pew survey […] Read more »
Trump’s Other Base: In preparation for 2020, the president is focused on the minority vote.
Donald Trump’s dogged, Captain-Ahab-like obsession with immigrants and asylum seekers crossing the southern border is many things. It is an open appeal to white-nationalist xenophobia among the many members of his overwhelmingly white base. Check. It is a frustration that his oft-promised new wall has yet to a single mile […] Read more »
A Biden 2020 candidacy would confront Democratic Party with its past
The Democratic Party of 2020 will face a reckoning with the Democratic Party of 50 years ago if former Vice President Joe Biden seeks the presidency, as he’s expected to do. When Biden, who’s now 76, was first elected to the Senate from Delaware in 1972, Democrats relied on an […] Read more »