A recent NBC News/GenForward poll found that, overall, young Americans don’t like what Trump has done as president so far. Half think he’ll go down in history as a poor president, and his bad marks only get worse when it comes to millennials of color. But all hope may not […] Read more »
For Trump, a Year of Reinventing the Presidency
… Mr. Trump is the 45th president of the United States, but he has spent much of his first year in office defying the conventions and norms established by the previous 44, and transforming the presidency in ways that were once unimaginable. Under Mr. Trump, it has become a blunt […] Read more »
What we learned about American democracy in 2017
This time last year, I was trying to figure out a year-in-review piece that would make sense of all we had seen, without knowing much about what to expect from the Trump presidency. In retrospect, this seems like nothing so much as a failure of imagination: The rapid transition from […] Read more »
5 lessons from a Republican year of governing dangerously
The Republican Congress ended its first year on a partisan high note by overhauling the tax code and undercutting the Affordable Care Act, setting up a trillion increase in the deficit in the process. Before the finale, the 115th Congress was buoyed by a strong economy, yet gridlocked by slim […] Read more »
Who’s Winning the Culture War? Corporate America.
… The contemporary geographic coalitions of the parties primarily reflect the nation’s roiling cultural conflicts, but the representatives chosen via today’s electoral map are equally polarized over economic policies — and it is pocketbook issues, not social matters, that dominate the business of Congress. Increasingly unfettered by a declining bloc […] Read more »
Liberal or Conservative? Where you shop reveals how you vote
Crate & Barrell, L.L.Bean and Sephora: Where you shop during the Christmas holiday season reveals a lot about how you vote. Meet the Press, NBC News Read more »