The long-awaited federal indictment of Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election may be necessary to contain the threat to American democracy that he has unleashed. But it’s unlikely to be sufficient. The germ of election denialism that Trump injected into the American political system has spread […] Read more »
Even Trump’s indictments haven’t shattered the deadlock between the parties. Here’s why
Former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal jeopardy is raising a stark political question: can anything break the sustained electoral stalemate that has left the country divided almost exactly in half between the Republican and Democratic coalitions? Trump is facing a swarm of criminal accusations unprecedented for an active presidential candidate, […] Read more »
Is Congress on a witch hunt? 5 ways to judge whether oversight hearings are legitimate or politicized
Congressional staffers stand beneath a monitor showing House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., in a hearing, July 19, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Claire Leavitt, Smith College Since Republicans regained the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections, they have initiated a flurry […] Read more »
The uneven toll of the coronavirus pandemic
The official health emergency over Covid may be over, but the effects still linger. And this week the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, published a study that supported a theory many had suspected: The pandemic didn’t hit all Americans the same — and Republicans, who lagged behind in accepting the Covid […] Read more »
Democrats and Republicans Agree Men Are in Trouble. They Disagree on What to Do About It.
For decades, a gender gap has been slowly changing how Americans vote: Women are voting for Democrats more, and men are usually sticking with Republicans. But lately, Republicans have been increasingly explicit about claiming the mantle of the manlier party for themselves. … Democrats have been less eager to stake […] Read more »
Biden’s ‘Big Build’
… Centered on a trio of bills Biden signed in his first two years, the president’s economic program has triggered what could become the most concentrated burst of public and private investment since the 1960s. … This surge of investment could rumble through the economy for years. The reverberations could […] Read more »