America’s divisions often go beyond disputes over policy, regularly spilling into clashes over identity and culture and pitting friends and family against one another. Judy Woodruff explores how that came to be and what it means for our shared future in her latest installment of “America at a Crossroads.” PBS […] Read more »
Republicans are leaving votes on the table
The Beltway hosted a dueling set of Republican conferences this past weekend, which perfectly highlighted the party’s struggles: the Conservative Political Action Conference, taken over by former President Trump; versus Principles First, put on by center-right and never-Trump organizations. Trump triumphantly declared his takeover of the party complete, saying things […] Read more »
Americans remain hopeful about democracy despite fears of its demise – and are acting on that hope
Black voters are punishing anti-democratic candidates at the ballot box. AP Photo/Morry Gash Ray Block Jr, Penn State; Andrene Wright, Penn State, and Mia Angelica Powell, Penn State President Joe Biden will convene world leaders beginning on March 29, 2023, to discuss the state of democracies around the world. The […] Read more »
Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election
A little more than a week after television networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joseph R. Biden Jr., top executives and anchors at Fox News held an after-action meeting to figure out how they had messed up. Not because they had gotten the key call wrong — but because […] Read more »
Republicans are trying to build a multiracial right – will it work?
GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a campaign event on Feb. 16, 2023, in Exeter, N.H. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Joseph Lowndes, University of Oregon and Daniel Martinez HoSang, Yale Divinity School Former Republican South Carolina Governor and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley launched her bid for president recently […] Read more »
Why Red v. Blue Became Me v. You: Polarization, Part II
A political identity–being a liberal or Democrat (a “D”) versus being a conservative or Republican (an “R”)–has become viscerally more important to more Americans, reaching partisan intensities not seen for at least a century and not seen elsewhere in the western world. R’s and D’s have increasingly and heatedly differed […] Read more »