Don’t look now, but the Senate is quietly becoming what it used to be: an institution ruled by a simple majority. At least, for certain kinds of legislation. Despite his institutionalist reputation, President Biden is on track to become the most productive Democratic president in a generation, not because he […] Read more »
Why Some White Evangelical Republicans Are So Opposed To The COVID-19 Vaccine
In the race to get Americans vaccinated, two groups are commanding a lot of attention: Republicans and white evangelicals. Both are less likely to have been vaccinated already and more likely to refuse vaccination altogether. But it’s the overlap between white Republicans and white evangelicals that is especially telling, as […] Read more »
New 2020 census results show increased diversity countering decade-long declines in America’s white and youth populations
The first release of race-ethnic statistics from the 2020 census makes plain that America’s “diversity explosion” is continuing, albeit in the context of slower national growth, especially among the youth. The new numbers show that, for the first time, there was a decade-long loss in the number of white Americans […] Read more »
What the Census results tell us about the future US electorate
More 2020 Census results are in, and it’s clear that the trends we have been seeing over the last few decades show no signs of slowing down. You might say that we’ve crossed a tipping point of sorts that may have major political implications moving forward. The United States is […] Read more »
Deep Divisions in Americans’ Views of Nation’s Racial History – and How To Address It
A little more than a year after nationwide protests erupted after George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police, the public is deeply divided over how far the nation has progressed in addressing racial inequality – and how much further it needs to go. Opinion on the current […] Read more »
This may be the Democrats’ last chance to recover working-class Whites
The blue-collar barricade looms as the most stubborn obstacle to President Joe Biden enlarging his base of support. … Working-class White voters constituted the bedrock of the Democratic coalition from the 1930s to the 1960s but the party has lost ground among them, largely because of issues relating to race […] Read more »