… I heard so many people after the Georgia runoff in which Raphael Warnock defeated Herschel Walker who said some version of “Yes, but it was still too close.” It seemed to me that those comments — and many others — missed the bigger point: Something absolutely historic is happening […] Read more »
Few Americans Want to Leave Confederate Monuments as They Are, but Divides Over Solutions Persist
A new national survey conducted jointly by Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and E Pluribus Unum finds nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%), including 89% of Democrats, 75% of independents, and 51% of Republicans, support doing something about existing Confederate memorials and statues in public spaces—whether that’s re-contextualizing them with information […] Read more »
Southern Focus Survey
Three-fourths of residents in 11 Southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) believe a woman should be able to obtain a legal abortion if the pregnancy threatens the woman’s life or health, according to the latest Southern Focus Survey, an initiative […] Read more »
‘A recipe for a lot of suffering’: How abortion bans may strain the red states
The central paradox of the abortion debate is that the red states racing to outlaw or severely limit the procedure may be the places least prepared to deal with the practical consequences of the new restrictions. And that, experts project, could mean significantly more infant and maternal deaths and childhood […] Read more »
The good news about gun control isn’t the bipartisan deal
There is good news about gun policy in America. But it’s not the bipartisan agreement that emerged on Capitol Hill this week. … First, those involved in public policy who are not accountable to hardcore Republican voters have come to agree that guns are the problem. As a result, many […] Read more »
Why anti-abortion states have many of the worst outcomes for kids
Almost all of the states that produce the most unfavorable economic and health care outcomes for children are among those poised to ban or severely restrict access to abortion if the Supreme Court overturns the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision. That pattern underscores the paradox that the states most […] Read more »