As the United States faces twin crises of high unemployment and a global pandemic, large majorities of Americans want Joe Biden and Congress to prioritize strengthening the economy and addressing the coronavirus outbreak in the coming year. Yet there are wide partisan gaps over most of the 19 items asked […] Read more »
The Big Questions Driving Politics in 2021
After all the tumult and twists and turns of 2020, it seems a bit risky, if not downright ridiculous, to speculate about the things that will drive our politics in the upcoming year. But, there are some issues that I think are going to play important, if not staring roles […] Read more »
Lowering the bar for the Biden administration
Less than two years from now, during Joe Biden’s first midterm election — and assuredly four years from now, during the next presidential contest — one of the two parties is likely to raise an inevitable question: “Are you better off now than you were two — or four — […] Read more »
Americans’ Concern Grows About Government, National Discord
Americans are sizing up the nation’s greatest challenges a bit differently this month in the aftermath of a political insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump and the national rollout of the coronavirus vaccine. Amid this backdrop, the percentage of Americans citing governmental leaders […] Read more »
A roadmap for the new Congress: From dysfunction to meaningful change
As Joe Biden assumes the presidency, there is an urgency to responding to the crises Chief of Staff Ron Klain put in a memo to the senior White House staff and the president emphasized in his inaugural address: the pandemic crisis, the resulting economic crisis, the climate crisis, the ongoing […] Read more »
Why Biden’s vaccine goals are likely too modest and good politics
A Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that just 29% of Americans think the federal government has done an excellent or good job distributing the Covid-19 vaccine to states so far. … President Joe Biden’s administration has come under some criticism for its goal to deliver 100 million doses of the […] Read more »