… Across the U.S., local school board races have emerged as an intense political battleground in the Nov. 2 elections, with much at stake for students. Parental protests over COVID-19-related mask mandates, gender-neutral bathrooms, and teachings about racial history, sexuality and social-emotional learning are being leveraged into full-fledged board takeover […] Read more »
Checking in on our collective mental health
The pandemic has been hard, no less so on our well-being. Humans, after all, are social creatures. We need others. Social interactions are essential; they make us whole. COVID left us at a social deficit. What is the cumulative cost of our lost year and a half on an individual […] Read more »
A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class—What Americans Think
… As the president wrote in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, “America is back. Diplomacy is back. Alliances are back.” Do the American people believe that America is back? And do they support the policies laid out in the Biden administration’s Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? The […] Read more »
Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals
In 2020, amid a year of violence and fear, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were hypervisible – and that changed the way they look at themselves and politics, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. As the global pandemic took hold, then-President Donald Trump started using xenophobic terms to blame […] Read more »
Trust in Biden on COVID erodes
… Anyone else feeling a sense of déjà vu? Yet another poll, this time with ABC News, finds that approval of Biden’s handling of a slate of issues – from COVID to the economic recovery – has taken a hit. Being a president is a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately job. This is yet […] Read more »
Polarization over vaccine mandate rules underscores difficulty for U.S. to slow pandemic
Public support for the Biden administration’s drive to get more people vaccinated for COVID-19 is largely split along partisan lines, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. While employers in some sectors and parts of the country are reporting that a vast majority of workers are complying with new vaccine […] Read more »