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Most Gun Laws Aren’t Backed Up By Evidence. Here’s Why.
[ad_1] California, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images In the first month of 2023, 25 people lost their lives in four mass shootings in California over just eight days. It’s a grim statistic, made all the more distressing when you consider…
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Everyone Agrees That Universal Pre-K Is Important. So Why Don’t More States Have It?
[ad_1] ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images California is in the middle of implementing a plan that will create a free, universal pre-K program (known as transitional kindergarten) for every 4-year-old in the state by the 2025-2026 school year. It sounds like a big, blue state priority, but it’s also a red state one.…
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New Yorkers Aren’t The Only Ones Who Really Dislike George Santos
[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. In one of America’s most enduring myths, President George Washington damaged his father’s cherry tree with a hatchet when he was a small child. When his father confronted him, Washington admitted to what he had done, saying “I cannot tell…
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Americans Are Lonely. That Has Political Consequences.
[ad_1] Americans are spending more and more time alone, and more than a third reported experiencing “serious loneliness” in 2021. The director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development — the longest study of human life ever conducted — concluded in a new book that close personal relationships are the “one crucial factor [that] stands…
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Politics Podcast: The Politics Of Loneliness
[ad_1] Americans are spending more and more time alone, and more than a third reported experiencing “serious loneliness” in 2021. The director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development — the longest study of human life ever conducted — concluded in a new book that close personal relationships are the “one crucial factor [that] stands…
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How Our 2022 Midterm Forecasts Performed
[ad_1] PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES Let’s get this out of the way up front: There was a wide gap between the perception of how well polls and data-driven forecasts did in 2022 and the reality of how they did … and the reality is that they did pretty well. While some…
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How Donald Trump’s Unusual Presidential Comeback Could Go
[ad_1] With his November announcement that he would seek the 2024 Republican nomination for president, Donald Trump joined a rarified subsection of a rarified group: a former president who sought a return to the White House. Joe Raedle / Getty Images “I am not a candidate. I will not become a candidate. I will support…
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The 5 Main Factions Of The House GOP
[ad_1] How will divisions among House Republicans play out in the 118th Congress? SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images In the first few years after former President Donald Trump assumed office, he essentially became a one-man litmus test for the Republican Party. Conservatives’ bona fides hinged less on their voting records, and more on…
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Will Tyre Nichols’s Murder Finally Make Congress Do Something About Police Reform?
[ad_1] Transcript Alex Samuels: The brutal body cam footage showing 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by Memphis, Tennessee, police officers was released late Friday. The videos prompted outrage from all corners of D.C. since its release. But whether it will spark action is another question. The video has revived some bipartisan calls for…
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Adam Schiff’s Unlikely To Be The Last Major Democrat To Join California’s U.S. Senate Race
[ad_1] California Rep. Adam Schiff is the second member of the House to announce he’ll seek the safely blue Senate seat currently held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, which could have a very interesting primary. Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images During Donald Trump’s presidency, few U.S. House members grabbed more headlines than…