A survey released today by PRRI finds that white Americans’ support for policies to address poverty is limited in different ways by education level—by perceived social distance to racial minorities among non-college-educated whites and by lower commitments to equal opportunity among college-educated whites. The survey was conducted by PRRI, a […] Read more »
The Urgent Need to Repair Our Broken Politics
An article in Washington Monthly caught my eye the other day. It compared the United States today to Germany between the two World Wars. As a rule, I’m wary of historical analogies. It seems that the closer you examine them, the less convincing they become. But James Bruno, a veteran […] Read more »
GOP tax reform: likely loser
Republicans could score with their tax reform proposals. But they almost certainly won’t. Americans would be receptive to eliminating tax breaks for big corporations and lowering taxes for the middle class. Alas, the GOP is congenitally incapable of producing such a plan because its real objective has long been reducing […] Read more »
America the Pessimistic: New Poll Shows Lackluster Views of U.S.
It may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but Americans are far from united in seeing the United States as an exceptional place to live, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. The survey also finds that the […] Read more »
Wall Street Efforts to Improve Its Image Fail to Sway Americans
Bad news for financial titans like JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Lloyd Blankfein: Most Americans hold unfavorable views of Wall Street banks and corporate executives, and distrust billionaires more than they admire them. Despite efforts by Wall Street firms to regain trust since the […] Read more »
The Closing of the Republican Mind
The election of President Trump has coincided with a reaction among Republican voters against open-mindedness, open borders and an open society in general — not to mention a growing hostility to cognitive elites. … Countless analyses have demonstrated that Trump won the election by combining support from traditional Republican voters […] Read more »