… White men sometimes feel besieged and baffled by these suggestions of systematic advantage. When I wrote a series last year, “When Whites Just Don’t Get It,” the reaction from white men was often indignant: It’s an equal playing field now! Get off our case! Yet the evidence is overwhelming […] Read more »
Why Giuliani and Other Obama Critics Play the ‘American’ Card
When Rudolph Giuliani said that he does “not believe that the president loves America,” he became the latest in a long line of public figures to question the loyalty or allegiance of the country’s first nonwhite president. While these criticisms are ostensibly directed at Barack Obama’s worldview, as Mr. Giuliani […] Read more »
The Most Valuable Voters of 2016
Where will demographic change most transform the landscape for the 2016 presidential race? … In the charts below, we summarize the two demographic trends that may most affect the political landscape in the 11 states that both parties now treat as decisive swing contests. As the charts show, all of […] Read more »
California: Record-High Approval for Gov. Brown, Bipartisan Support for His Budget
Californians give Governor Jerry Brown a record-high job approval rating and his budget proposal has strong bipartisan support in a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), with support from The James Irvine Foundation. Strong majorities of state residents favor the governor’s plan to require […] Read more »
De Blasio, Obama and a Flawed Vision of Liberalism
… In the aftermath of Mr. de Blasio’s landslide victory in 2013, it was tempting to believe that he had pioneered a new style of progressive politics, one that built on President Obama’s coalition of African-Americans, Latinos and liberals. Whereas Mr. Obama twice lost white voters by double digits, Mr. […] Read more »
Is the Defendant White or Not?
As jury selection continues in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombings, so does debate about what would constitute a fair and impartial jury. … Within hours of the F.B.I.’s release of the suspects’ photographs, we collected responses from 426 white Americans to a broad […] Read more »