-
Republicans Aren’t New To The Anti-Vaxx Movement
[ad_1] At first glance, Melissa seems to meet all the criteria of the “crunchy granola” type. She tracks ingredients on all the products she buys and uses apps to identify anything that isn’t “clean.” She says she considers herself vaccine-hesitant. “I’m not against vaccines for everyone,” she wrote to me in a Facebook Messenger chat.…
-
Americans Have A Long History Of Opposing Refugees. But Most Support Afghan Asylum Seekers.
[ad_1] It didn’t take long for prominent voices on the political right to begin stoking fears about Afghan citizens fleeing the Taliban’s takeover of the country and coming to the United States. Former President Donald Trump inaccurately claimed that there’s “NO VETTING” of these evacuees, asking, “How many terrorists will Joe Biden bring to America?”…
-
Vaccines Mandates Work, But They’re Messy Business
[ad_1] In fall 2019, before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, California legislators were trying to pass a bill aimed at increasing childhood vaccination. Five years previously, someone at Disneyland had set off a measles outbreak that infected more than 100 people, mostly unvaccinated, in the state — as well as in six other states,…
-
Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions
[ad_1] It took several months, but Texas Republicans have finally enacted their much-debated bill rolling back voting access in the Lone Star State. Back in the spring, disagreements between Senate and House Republicans delayed the final vote on the proposal until the last day of Texas’s regular legislative session, making it easy for Democrats to…
-
Why A 9/11-Era Political Consensus Seems Impossible These Days
[ad_1] In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Jennifer Merolla, a political science professor at UC-Riverside, and Hannah Hartig, a research associate at Pew Research Center, reflect on the political climate in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and whether a similar American consensus is possible right now. CalMatters politics reporter Laurel Rosenhall and vice…
-
Politics Podcast: How Politics Have Changed Since The Days After 9/11
[ad_1] American politics has changed a lot in the twenty years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that defined a generation of American life. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Jennifer Merolla, a Professor of Political Science at UC Riverside, and Hannah Hartig, a research associate at Pew Research Center reflect on the political…
-
Universities Say They Want More Diverse Faculties. So Why Is Academia Still So White?
[ad_1] When she was hired as a professor by Harvard University in 2013, Lorgia García Peña was the only Black Latina on a tenure track in the university’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. But in 2019, she was denied tenure even though her department chair and two deans had told her that she should apply…
-
What Texas’s Abortion Ban Could Mean For The Rest Of The Country
[ad_1] Late Wednesday night in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to block a Texas law banning most abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, making this the most restrictive abortion law in the country. The court did not rule on the constitutionality of the law, but the law is now in…
-
Most Parents Want Their Kids Back In The Classroom. Fewer Agree On The COVID-19 Safety Measures.
[ad_1] Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. After more than a year of distance learning, many school-age children in the U.S. have gone back to the classroom. And while the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus certainly triggers mixed feelings about kids’ returning to school, parents have maintained for the most part that…
-
Why Texas’s Abortion Law May Go Too Far For Most Americans
[ad_1] In a matter of days, a novel abortion law in Texas has made it virtually impossible for women to access the procedure in the state — although the constitutional right to abortion is still intact, for now. The Texas law bans abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, usually about six weeks into a…