The spread of the new coronavirus in the United States comes at a time of low public trust in key institutions. Only around a third of U.S. adults (35%) have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in elected officials to act in the public’s best interests, and […] Read more »
Electoral College Math Grows Clearer
The financial markets are in a free fall, economists are debating the probability of the economy tipping into a recession, health experts are discussing whether the coronavirus epidemic has or will soon become a pandemic, and Joe Biden now looks increasingly like he will be the Democratic nominee. Other than […] Read more »
Will Coronavirus Shake Up the Political Stasis?
The one constant in these last three and a half years has been chaos. Almost every week, there is an event, issue or moment that looks as if it may upend our current political stasis or rattle the economy. But so far, nothing, not a government shutdown, nor impeachment, nor […] Read more »
Trump’s Re-election Chances Suddenly Look Shakier
President Trump faces the biggest challenge yet to his prospects of being re-elected, with his advisers’ two major assumptions for the campaign — a booming economy and an opponent easily vilified as too far left — quickly evaporating. After a year in which Mr. Trump has told voters that they […] Read more »
Americans are more worried about finances than their health amid coronavirus outbreak
… An exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll, taken Tuesday and Wednesday, finds Americans are worried about the novel coronavirus and are beginning to see its impact in their daily lives. Many express greater concern about what the pandemic may mean for their financial well-being than for their health. … The most […] Read more »
Presidents Forge Their Legacies in Crises
Riding Air Force One with President Trump back to the nation’s capital on Monday afternoon felt eerily like that grim day in 2005 when President George W. Bush was flying to the White House to confront the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. … A onetime political colossus with a 90 percent […] Read more »