April

While most Americans rightly see Joe Biden as the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election, time, facts and evidence have done little to shift the attitudes of Trump voters who stubbornly…

In our hyperpolarized society, the left can’t talk to the right and the right can’t talk to the left. Liberals and conservatives hold different values, worship different heroes, abhor different…

You want evidence of systemic racism? Black Americans have to overcome significantly higher barriers to voting than whites. Black people are forced to wait in considerably longer lines to cast…

In the past hundred years, two particularly deadly pandemics plagued America. Comparing them offers some important lessons about our changed politics. Though it may have started in the U.S., the…

Like most Americans, and nearly everyone on my side of the partisan divide, I’m thrilled with the agenda President Biden has laid out and pleased with the high levels of public support…

With President Biden reaching the 100-day mark, pollsters are back on the prowl attempting to discern public reaction to his performance. Assessments appear contradictory. Slate told us “Biden’s 100-Day Approval Rating Is…

What segment of American society is most underrepresented in Congress? Guess. Minorities? Black Americans comprise 11 percent of the Congress and 13 percent of the population, for 2 points of…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) diatribe against big business could spawn volumes of analysis. The text tells many tales: the frayed coalition between the board room and the pick-up truck,…

Donald Trump isn’t finished inflicting pain on the Republican Party. Republicans’ unwillingness to deal with their Trump problem, as late as his second impeachment, could well cost them dearly in…