Racing into a new century in which many of the old rules don’t seem to apply anymore, Americans are overwhelmingly pessimistic about their chances of achieving and sustaining the American dream, according to a new Marist-McClatchy Poll. They see an economic system in which they have to work harder than […] Read more »
The End of American Exceptionalism
From the moment Barack Obama appeared on the national stage, conservatives have been searching for the best way to describe the danger he poses to America’s traditional way of life. Secularism? Check. Socialism? Sure. A tendency to apologize for America’s greatness overseas? That, too. But how to tie them all […] Read more »
No, there isn’t a ‘New American Center’
Esquire, a magazine about fancy clothes and ordering drinks like an asshole, has teamed up with NBC News to poll a bunch of soft-liberal white voters. They discovered that those voters exist, they’re white, and they’re a bit liberal. … No one was claiming that America was strictly divided between […] Read more »
The new American center: Why our nation isn’t as divided as we think
It’s the most conventional wisdom in Washington, the unchallenged idea that America is a divided nation, a country ripped into red and blue factions in perpetual conflict. The government shutdown this fall would seem like only the latest evidence of this political civil war. But is the idea of two […] Read more »
Rich People Just Care Less
… A growing body of recent research shows that people with the most social power pay scant attention to those with little such power. … Bringing the micropolitics of interpersonal attention to the understanding of social power, researchers are suggesting, has implications for public policy. [cont.] Daniel Goleman, New York […] Read more »
More people express uncertainty in chance to achieve the American Dream
Four years into an economic recovery in which most of the benefits have flowed to the top earners, a majority believe that the American Dream is becoming markedly more elusive, according to the results of a Washington Post-Miller Center Poll exploring Americans’ changing definition of success and their confidence in […] Read more »