Why GOP can’t reopen the economy without Democratic buy-in

From President Donald Trump through Republican governors and state legislatures, the GOP is coalescing around a position of reopening the economy as quickly as possible despite concerns about seeding a wider spread of the coronavirus. … The daunting equation facing Trump and Republican governors is that no matter how many […] Read more »

How Covid-19 Is Spreading Through Rural Communities

During the past month, the spread of the Covid-19 virus has taken a turn across the country with two major impacts, as seen in the American Communities Project: Rural communities are seeing some of the biggest growth in cases, and Hispanic Centers and Native American Lands are seeing their infections […] Read more »

How Trump Turned the Pandemic Into Identity Politics

No one really knows where the arc of history is bending these days, but this weekend we got a good look at where the arc of conservative activism is heading. The death toll in the United States from the coronavirus has now topped 40,000 but, egged on by presidential tweets, […] Read more »

An Unprecedented Divide Between Red and Blue America

The coronavirus pandemic appears destined to widen the political divide between the nation’s big cities and the smaller places beyond them. And that could narrow Donald Trump’s possible pathways to reelection. In almost every state, the outbreak is spreading much more heavily in the largest metropolitan centers than in less […] Read more »