A majority of American voters support the demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice that have roiled the country over the past month, embracing ideas about bias within the criminal justice system and the persistence of systemic racism that are central tenets of the Black Lives Matter movement, according to […] Read more »
Flashy primary fights aren’t what get parties to change. Churn is.
On Tuesday night, progressive Democrats in New York claimed another victory in their effort to move the party left by toppling establishment-friendly incumbents, as Jamaal Bowman, who was endorsed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, claimed victory in his primary challenge to longtime Rep. Eliot Engel. … Highly […] Read more »
Is the Media Creating Division on COVID-19 Health Practices?
Most Americans continue to embrace practices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, a partisan gap in attitudes and self-reported behaviors has existed since March and is growing larger. A significant contributor to this widening gap seems to be Americans’ news media diet (determined by the top news sources […] Read more »
Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden’s rising evangelical support
… Biden, a lifelong Roman Catholic, has performed better in recent polling among white evangelicals — and other religious groups — than Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton did in 2016 and is widely perceived as more religious than the current White House occupant. … Many conservative evangelical leaders have argued […] Read more »
Biden and Trump Are Fighting Each Other in a Changed World
America has swung wildly from electing, and re-electing, its first African-American president, to installing the most belligerently white chief executive in the nation’s history. Now, as a multiracial cohort of demonstrators has massed in more than 2000 cities and towns, as Covid-19 has shifted to red states and as the […] Read more »
The Supreme Court said LGBT discrimination in the workplace should be illegal. Roughly 70% of Republicans agree.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Bostock v. Clayton County that workplace discrimination against LGBT individuals is illegal discrimination on “the basis of sex” under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. … It is hard to know whether judges lead public opinion, or public opinion leads judges, or something else […] Read more »