The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump

Donald Trump has claimed credit for any number of things he benefited from but did not create, and the Republican Party’s reigning ideology is one of them: a politics of cruelty and exclusion that strategically exploits vulnerable Americans by portraying them as an existential threat, against whom acts of barbarism […] Read more »

All recent US population growth comes from people of color, new census estimates show

As we await the final 2020 census statistics for America’s race and ethnic populations (due later this summer), newly released Census Bureau estimates compiled independently of the 2020 census suggest something unprecedented: The 2010s could be the first decade when the nation’s white population registered an absolute loss. These new […] Read more »

Senate’s Riot Report Inadequate

It definitely qualifies as a riot although there is a big partisan split over whether you can call it an insurrection. But few say what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th was a legitimate protest, according to the Monmouth University Poll. The poll also finds there is not […] Read more »

Racial bias makes white Americans more likely to support wars in nonwhite foreign countries

White Americans who hold racist attitudes are likely to prefer military action over diplomacy in foreign countries like Iran and, in particular, China. Frank Rossoto Stocktrek via Getty Vladimir Enrique Medenica, University of Delaware and David Ebner, University of Delaware The effects of American racial bias and anti-Asian sentiment do […] Read more »

Can Democrats embrace diversity of views?

A new report authored by three prominent Democratic organizations over what went wrong for the party’s congressional candidates in last year’s election paints white privilege as a major problem for the party—but not quite in the way you’d expect. The political autopsy, coauthored by Third Way, the Collective PAC, and […] Read more »