At a moment of profound national tension over race, California may be lighting a pathway toward greater racial reconciliation as America grows irreversibly more diverse in the years ahead. The California state legislature is moving toward approving legislation this month that would place on the November ballot a referendum to […] Read more »
Black Americans most likely to know a COVID-19 victim
African Americans are disproportionately likely to say a family member or close friend has died of COVID-19 or respiratory illness since March, according to a series of surveys conducted since April that lays bare how black Americans have borne the brunt of the pandemic. CONT. Kat Stafford & Hannah Fingerhut, […] Read more »
White evangelicals think Trump is divinely ordained. He’ll do almost anything to keep it that way
Donald Trump’s reelection chances are quite dim without the robust support of his white evangelical base. His electoral college win in 2016 was fueled by white evangelical turnout and the overwhelming number of white evangelicals — 81% — who pulled the lever for him. He cannot afford for the religious […] Read more »
‘Defund the Police’ movement politically fraught
… The data is clear. Only a plurality of Americans support defunding the police. But a majority of Democrats and African Americans do. Will this be a key motivator in the 2020 presidential election? It is shaping up to be. This is good for Trump; bad for Biden. CONT. Clifford […] Read more »
White House divide on Floyd response, as some push Trump for tougher tactics
With less than five months before voters head to the polls, President Donald Trump finds himself in an uncertain position: caught between advisers urging him to calm a country in the grips of a pandemic, economic uncertainty and civil unrest and those who want him to lean into aggressive tactics […] Read more »
The Protests Appear To Be Working
Nationwide protests against police violence have continued around the country for nearly three weeks. Their size and scope evoke the civil rights protests of the 1960s. But can we judge the efficacy of a protest movement by a measure other than its size? And do the current protests seem to […] Read more »