Tag: Robert P. Jones
The Republicans Rejecting Racism in 2024
The sharp exchange between former President Barack Obama and two nonwhite 2024 GOP presidential candidates captures how diverging perceptions about racial inequity have emerged as a central fault line between the Republican and Democratic coalitions.
In their presidential campaigns, Republican Senator Tim Scott, who is Black, and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who is Indian American, have repeatedly insisted that systemic or structural racism is no longer a problem in America. That drew a sharp rebuke earlier this month
Der Krieg gegen Weihnachten gewinnt
„Wissen sie, dass Weihnachten ist?“ fragte einmal der Musiker Bob Geldof. Fast drei Jahrzehnte später lautet die Antwort in den Vereinigten Staaten, dass sie es genau wissen, aber was das bedeutet und wie sie es ausdrücken, ist im Fluss.
Seit Jahren warnen Konservative vor einem „Krieg gegen Weihnachten“. Der frühere Präsident Donald Trump nahm es als Hauptgrund an, und fast vier von zehn Amerikanern sagten in einer Umfrage im vergangenen Dezember, dass Politiker eine Kampagne führen, um die Religion aus
How a Roe Overturn Would Deepen America’s Divides
The draft Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion presents a major setback for reproductive freedom in America and offers a potential jolt to the upcoming midterm elections. But it also illuminates another, deeper phenomenon in American politics: the urgency and ambition of the Republican drive to lock into law the cultural priorities of its preponderantly white, Christian, and older electoral coalition at a moment of rapid demographic change.
The fundamental divide in our politics today is between
The Supreme Court Is on a Doomed Crusade
The Supreme Court has set itself on a collision course with the forces of change in an inexorably diversifying America.
The six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have been nominated and confirmed by GOP presidents and senators representing the voters least exposed, and often most hostile, to the demographic and cultural changes remaking 21st-century American life. Now the GOP Court majority is moving at an accelerating pace to impose that coalition’s preferences on issues such as abortion, voting rights, and