… The verdict was guilty on all counts. A very extraordinary story, a killer cop convicted; paired with an all too ordinary story, an unarmed Black man killed. The bipartisan consensus that Chauvin was guilty is another extraordinary result. But, that does not mean that we as a nation are […] Read more »
The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward
Far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and now Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to “replace” native-born Americans in the nation’s culture and electorate. But that racist “replacement theory” inverts the real consequence of immigration for […] Read more »
Democrats Play ‘Moneyball’ for Long-Term Success
… Clearly, this country is narrowly and bitterly divided. Americans are increasingly voting in a parliamentary fashion, picking the same party up and down the ballot, with individual candidates and their personal brands meaning and mattering less. Most are locked in with their team, with only a narrow but pivotal […] Read more »
Biden Job Approval a Respectable 57% at 100 Days
As President Joe Biden approaches the symbolic 100th day of his presidency at the end of this month, his job approval rating is back to its post-inauguration high of 57%. It has varied between 54% and 57% since he took office. Biden’s 100-day approval rating, based on an April 1-21 […] Read more »
How Are Voters Viewing Biden’s Big Infrastructure Bill?
While the Biden Administration asserts that Americans are ready for “a once in a lifetime, once in a generation investment in America’s infrastructure,” recent polling on the $2T “American Jobs Plan package suggests Americans are much more ambivalent. Support for the proposed legislation ranges from a high of 64 percent […] Read more »
Young Americans overwhelmingly approve of the job President Biden is doing
A national poll of America’s 18-to-29 year olds released today by the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School shows that despite the state of our politics, hope for America among young people is rising dramatically, especially among people of color. As more young Americans are likely to be politically […] Read more »