More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak

With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties’ own voters, aren’t terribly happy with the parties or what they’re talking about. Given that Sunday’s CBS News poll finds most aren’t happy with the direction of the country either, […] Read more »

Nativist nation

This week saw some political wins (and some losses) for a political worldview promoted by former President Trump and now being promulgated by the candidates he has endorsed in the primaries. Jarringly, these political wins come on the back of the Buffalo massacre that marked one of the most violent […] Read more »

The MAGA Formula Is Getting Darker and Darker

The chilling amalgam of Christian nationalism, white replacement theory and conspiratorial zeal — from QAnon to the “stolen” 2020 election — has attracted a substantial constituency in the United States, thanks in large part to the efforts of Donald Trump and his advisers. By some estimates, adherents of these overlapping […] Read more »

Immigration Attitudes and Conspiratorial Thinkers

After years of heated rhetoric around immigration and its impacts, new data from an AP-NORC poll reveals that two-thirds of Americans feel the country’s diverse population makes the US stronger – less than 10% say diversity weakens the country. Still, roughly one in three (32%) adults agree that a group […] Read more »