The GOP’s identity-politics crisis: Holding race-card aces but loath to play them

… After years of deriding Democrats for dividing Americans into hyphenated subgroups, Republicans face a tantalizing and vexing prospect this year. With two sons of Cuban immigrants, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, joining a famed African American surgeon, Ben Carson, near the top of the polls, they have a unique […] Read more »

How America’s Demographic Revolution Reached The Church

Long the dominant group in American religious life, White Christians have fallen below a majority of the U.S. population—and they are moving to the right politically as they recede. The result is that, like race and age, religious affiliation marks a sharpening point of distinction between Republicans and Democrats, previously […] Read more »

How Much Do Black Lives Matter to the Presidential Campaign?

The onslaught of confrontations between blacks and the police, as well as intense coverage on TV and online of college campus protests and of the Black Lives Matter movement, have decisively affected the Democratic Party’s position on a core issue: the use of force to maintain public order. … These […] Read more »

Votantes latinos en estados decisivos van por Hillary

Los votantes latinos que viven en 14 estados decisivos para las elecciones presidenciales del año que viene –los llamados “battleground states”– favorecen a Hillary Clinton en la primaria demócrata y a Jeb Bush en la primaria republicana. CONT. Pilar Marrero, La Opinión Read more »