… The country is increasingly divided because of the nature of our campaigns and the makeup of the media, as well as the increased role of each party’s more ideological wing. Barring the elimination of the internet, cable TV and talk radio, or the re-establishment of broad-based parties, I see no […] Read more »
Here’s how political science explains the GOP’s obsession with civility
On Wednesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the surprise Democratic primary winner from New York’s 14th Congressional District, said, “[T]he Democratic Party is a big tent and there are so many ways to be a Democrat.” In this, she is correct. Democrats have been, sometimes uncomfortably, forced to find connections and common cause […] Read more »
Don’t Feed the Troll in the Oval Office
It is hardly news that President Trump has deliberately provoked liberal outrage, as a candidate and as president. But in case anyone is still wondering whether his inflammatory language is the result of design or impulse, recent comments from current and former White House strategists are revealing. Last month, an […] Read more »
When the Supreme Court Locks Arms With Republicans
This term, the five Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices locked arms with their GOP counterparts in the White House and Congress against the unstinting forces of demographic change. In muscling through a series of 5–4 decisions on voting rights, redistricting, and President Trump’s travel ban over the unified objections of the […] Read more »
Public Attitudes Toward Technology Companies
In the midst of an ongoing debate over the power of digital technology companies and the way they do business, sizable shares of Americans believe these companies privilege the views of certain groups over others. Some 43% of Americans think major technology firms support the views of liberals over conservatives, […] Read more »
Record Partisan Divide on Views of the NRA
Republicans and Democrats are more divided in their views of the National Rifle Association than at any other time in Gallup’s 29-year trend. Eighty-eight percent of self-identified Republicans say they have very or mostly favorable views of the NRA, compared with 24% of Democrats, a 64-percentage-point gap in positive opinions […] Read more »