America has swung wildly from electing, and re-electing, its first African-American president, to installing the most belligerently white chief executive in the nation’s history. Now, as a multiracial cohort of demonstrators has massed in more than 2000 cities and towns, as Covid-19 has shifted to red states and as the […] Read more »
The Supreme Court said LGBT discrimination in the workplace should be illegal. Roughly 70% of Republicans agree.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday in Bostock v. Clayton County that workplace discrimination against LGBT individuals is illegal discrimination on “the basis of sex” under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. … It is hard to know whether judges lead public opinion, or public opinion leads judges, or something else […] Read more »
‘We’re thinking landslide’: Beyond D.C., GOP officials see Trump on glide path to reelection
By most conventional indicators, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming a one-term president. The economy is a wreck, the coronavirus persists, and his poll numbers have deteriorated. But throughout the Republican Party’s vast organization in the states, the operational approach to Trump’s re-election campaign is hardening around a fundamentally […] Read more »
The Tea Party’s Last Stand
… Months ago, President Trump tweeted, “liberate” Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia and “save your great 2nd Amendment.” The national conservative funding network and Fox News jumped in to promote the protests, but the hundreds who joined the capitol protests fell far short of the Tea Party protests against President Barack […] Read more »
Trump might be remaking both parties’ membership
You may love Donald Trump or you may hate him, but he has left a big mark on the American political scene and his impact seems to have reached into the parties themselves — changing who identifies as a Republican and as a Democrat. New data from the Pew Research […] Read more »
Both Candidates Are Widely Disliked (Again). This Time, Biden Could Benefit.
… Polling suggests that this November’s election could become only the second presidential contest in the history of modern polling in which both candidates are seen negatively by most voters. The other was just four years ago, when pre-election surveys and exit polls found that both Mr. Trump and his […] Read more »