… If Republicans want to hold onto the House, they will have to compete in communities that had little to do with the working-class regions that sent Trump to the White House in 2016: affluent, white-collar suburbs of Democratic cities. Many of the most competitive House seats this year are […] Read more »
The Bobby Kennedy Pathway
After the 2016 election, many progressives were furious to learn that 22 percent of the working-class whites who once supported President Barack Obama voted for Donald Trump. How could the same people back two political figures with such diametrically opposed approaches, particularly on the defining issue of race? As we […] Read more »
Conor Lamb Chips Away at Trump’s Coalition
The Republicans’ last sea wall against a Democratic wave in November visibly cracked, but did not entirely crumble, in Tuesday’s special election for a House seat in Pennsylvania. For all of the gains Democrats have posted in elections held since Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, until this week they had […] Read more »
White Evangelical Women, Core Supporters of Trump, Begin Tiptoeing Away
… While the men in the pulpits of evangelical churches remain among Mr. Trump’s most stalwart supporters, some of the women in the pews may be having second thoughts. As the White House fights to silence a pornographic actress claiming an affair with Mr. Trump, and a jailed Belarusian escort […] Read more »
The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases
Are you racist? It’s a question that makes most of us uncomfortable and defensive. … This week on Hidden Brain, we examine research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. We’ll begin with a focus on police shootings of unarmed black men. Later in the show, we look […] Read more »
The lemongrass burrito is the new America. Can either party keep up?
If recent population trends continue at their current pace, it’s likely that by Election Day this November, minorities will constitute the majority of the population in the Congressional District centered on this prospering small city in Orange County about an hour south of Los Angeles. That places the 45th Congressional […] Read more »