A new study shows a large majority of African-American and Hispanic news consumers don’t fully trust the media to portray their communities accurately, a statistic that could be troubling for the news industry as the minority population of the United States grows. … When asked whether they thought news about […] Read more »
California: Police in our community
USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll: Most Californians don’t feel mistreated by police, but believe others have been unfairly targeted Read more »
Obama losing the confidence of key parts of the coalition that elected him
Kimberly Cole was part of the coalition that voted in 2008 to make Barack Obama the 44th president and gave him another four years in 2012 to deliver on his promises of hope and change. Now, the 36-year-old mother of three young children in Valencia, Calif., is among the majority […] Read more »
Political Shift Stalls Efforts to Overhaul Immigration
By the time Senator Angus King called the White House to warn President Obama against taking executive action to overhaul the immigration system, officials were well aware they had a problem on their hands. What had once looked like a clear political imperative for both parties — action to grant […] Read more »
How Latinos will matter in the midterm election
… In U.S. House races, the Democratic Party’s poor recruiting and fundraising efforts in districts that were narrowly carried by Republicans in 2012 and have significant shares of voting-age Latinos means that many potentially vulnerable GOP House incumbents are getting a pass this cycle. As a consequence, the influence of […] Read more »
On immigration, will Obama shape his legacy or the next election?
President Obama and his team spent hours last week deliberating over how and when to fulfill his promise to use his executive power to change the immigration system. They pored over legal precedent and policy data and debated political fallout. But none of their analysis could answer the question that […] Read more »