In the coming weeks and months, the Playbook team will be out covering the key districts and states that will decide the outcome of the midterm elections. This week, co-author Ryan Lizza was in Las Vegas to interview John Anzalone, who is best known as President Joe Biden’s pollster, but […] Read more »
Majority of Americans recognize significance of Ketanji Brown Jackson SCOTUS appointment
In the wake of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 53-47 confirmation vote to be appointed to the Supreme Court, a new USA Today/Ipsos poll finds that a plurality of Americans – and two-thirds of those who report following the hearing – support Jackson’s confirmation. More, however, recognize the significance of now […] Read more »
No Public Consensus on How Schools Should Discuss Sexuality and Racism
Americans are largely divided about the role of public schools in teaching children about issues related to sexuality and racism, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. While several state and local governments […] Read more »
How Jackson will sharpen the Supreme Court’s core conflict
… Just 51 years old, Jackson will likely spend decades at the center of the gathering conflict between the deeply conservative inclinations of the GOP-appointed justices and the preferences of a diversifying America, particularly the massive millennial and Generation Z cohorts born since 1980, which constitute the most racially and […] Read more »
Book bans move to center stage in the red-state education wars
The escalating red-state efforts to ban more books mark a new stage in the struggle to control the educational experience of America’s kaleidoscopically diverse younger generations. … Though battles over access to controversial titles traditionally have been fought district by district, and even school by school, Republican-controlled states including Florida, […] Read more »
Two-thirds of public support confirming Katanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court justice
In a new Marquette Law School Poll national survey, 66% of adults say that, if senators, they would support the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, while 34% would oppose her nomination. She is seen as “very qualified” by 46% of the public and as “somewhat qualified” […] Read more »