The Tea Party Didn’t Get What It Wanted, but It Did Unleash the Politics of Anger

In the late summer of 2009, as the recession-ravaged economy bled half a million jobs a month, the country seemed to lose its mind. … Ten years since that summer of rage, the ideas that animated the Tea Party movement have been largely abandoned by Republicans under President Trump. Trillion-dollar […] Read more »

We Aren’t Seeing White Support for Trump for What It Is

On Feb. 24, 2016, after winning the Nevada caucuses, Donald Trump told supporters in Las Vegas, “I love the poorly educated.” Technically, he should have said “I love poorly educated white people,” but his point was well taken. We have been talking about this since Trump came down that escalator […] Read more »

American Jews, Politics and Israel

The political orientation of American Jews has come back into the spotlight in recent weeks with President Donald Trump’s comments regarding Jews and their stances toward his presidency and the Democratic Party. … It has traditionally been difficult to analyze the attitudes and political orientation of American Jews in surveys […] Read more »