… Californians name economic conditions, homelessness, and housing as the most important issues facing the people of California today. Californians have mixed views about whether the state is going in the right or wrong direction. Strong majorities believe that the state will have bad times financially in the next 12 […] Read more »
Biden-McCarthy compromise is in line with public opinion
Amazingly enough, President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy managed to broker a debt-ceiling deal and say respectful things about each other over the long weekend. Heavy criticism of the deal from both left and right kept us moored in reality, though, and as of this writing, the bill has […] Read more »
The data behind the Supreme Court’s shift to the right
The Supreme Court has long painted itself as a safe space, in a country dominated by political partisanship, where the law and the Constitution rule. But data from recent years puts some weight behind the critics who argue that the highest court in the land has taken on a more […] Read more »
How Americans feel about the debt ceiling negotiations and the fanfare surrounding it.
Congress and President Biden have less than a week to reach a compromise on the debt ceiling before the U.S. defaults on its debt, a historic first that could drag the country (and the world) into a severe recession. A deal might be close, but compromise is a tall order […] Read more »
Amid Debt Crisis, Ratings of Biden, Congress Still Low
Amid tense negotiations to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling and avoid default, President Joe Biden’s latest job approval rating of 39% is just two percentage points higher than his personal low recorded last month. Meanwhile, Americans’ approval of the job Congress is doing has edged up four points since […] Read more »
Why the GOP Wants to Rob Gen Z to Pay the Boomers
The budget cuts that House Republicans are demanding in their high-stakes debt-ceiling standoff with President Joe Biden sharpen the overlapping generational and racial conflict moving to the center of U.S. politics. The House GOP’s blueprint would focus its spending cuts on the relatively small slice of the federal budget that […] Read more »