The center-right political coalition in America — the Republican Party as it stands today — can be described as holding two overarching goals: First, deregulation and reductions in corporate and other tax liabilities — each clearly stated on the White House website — and second, but packing a bigger punch, […] Read more »
‘Many People Are Saying’ Trump’s Republican Party Doesn’t Stand For Anything … But They’re Wrong
Did you hear that the Republicans aren’t writing a traditional platform this year? Did you read that the party has only approved a resolution pledged to “enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda”? Did you happen to catch the quote in today’s Politico story from veteran GOP congressional hand Brendan Buck, […] Read more »
How do Americans react when warned that other countries are meddling in U.S. elections?
Three countries are trying to influence the November elections in the United States: China, Russia and Iran, William Evanina warned earlier this month. Evanina is the director of the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Just two years ago, a U.S. Director of National Intelligence report warned that those three […] Read more »
The partisan pandemic: Do we now live in alternative realities?
A protestor argues with a counter-protestor in Los Angeles on May 1, 2020. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Andrea Robbett, Middlebury and Peter Hans Matthews, Middlebury Politics can divide even friends and families. When this happens, we like to tell ourselves that the explanation lies in honest differences in […] Read more »
Trump vs. Biden Is an American History Rerun
Not long ago, the struggle between racial liberalism and racial conservatism was a battle fought inside the Democratic and Republican parties. Now it’s a battle fought between the parties. Even with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket, the importance of ethnicity and race in […] Read more »
What the Kamala Harris Pick Tells Us About Joe Biden
Joe Biden is often described as an ideological moderate. During the 2020 Democratic primary, political analysts routinely used the term to distinguish Mr. Biden from prominent rivals running to his left, especially the self-described socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and the “big structural change” advocate Senator Elizabeth Warren. But the term […] Read more »