The legalization of same-sex marriage is a potent example of a dominant theme in American history: Over time, civil rights expand, and discrimination ebbs. … As a result, it’s fair to divide the major issues in American political life into two broad categories. In one category are the rights-based issues […] Read more »
Republicans Tread Carefully in Criticism of Confederate Flag
The massacre of nine African-Americans in a storied Charleston church last week, which thrust the issues of race relations and gun rights into the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, has now resurfaced another familiar and divisive question in the emerging contest for the Republican nomination: what to do with […] Read more »
Think the Charleston shooting will lead to new gun control laws? It won’t.
Wednesday’s mass killing of nine people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., by a lone gunman shocks the conscience of any sane person. … Yet the very fact of another awful act of gun violence helps to explain why nothing will change. For nearly a century, […] Read more »
Why gun control is doomed
… Americans of different political beliefs live ever-more different lives. That adds an element of raw tribalism to what should be dispassionate questions of public policy. Guns are a grim example. Consider polls that show Americans are becoming more hostile to gun control, and more willing to say that guns […] Read more »
Survey Of Current And Recent College Students On Sexual Assault
This partnership poll from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation examines the issue of sexual assault on college campuses by exploring the views and experiences of students ages 17 to 26 currently or recently enrolled in a four-year college or university who live on or near campus. The […] Read more »
Most Americans Continue to Say Death Penalty Morally OK
As the death penalty continues to lose support in state houses across America, with Nebraska banning the practice last week, 60% of Americans say the death penalty is morally acceptable. While this measure has remained relatively stable over time, the current 60% is on the lower end of acceptance of […] Read more »