In 2016, North Carolina passed its infamous “bathroom bill”, which prevented transgender people from using public bathrooms that aligned with their gender identity. Today, anti-trans legislation is taking aim at children. Dozens of states have introduced bills limiting transgender students’ participation on school sports teams that match their gender identity. Thirteen states, all Republican-leaning, have […]
Author: Jean Yi and Nathaniel Rakich
Where Americans Stand On Abortion, In 5 Charts
Late Monday, we learned that the Supreme Court may be ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the constitutional right to abortion. Abortion is a thorny issue in American life. It’s not something people like to talk about, and it’s not something people know that much about. Because of that, […]
Americans Are Moving On From Jan. 6 — Even If Congress Hasn’t
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. There are still a lot of questions surrounding the final phase of the House committee established to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Namely, we don’t know exactly when it will be, though the committee reportedly wants to start public hearings in May. It might be […]
More Than 70 Percent Of Trump’s Endorsees Believe The 2020 Election Was Fraudulent
Normally, a one-term presidency would be a sign for a political party to move away, regroup and pivot away from a losing brand. But Donald Trump is not a conventional former president. With the 2022 primary season beginning to pick up in earnest — not counting Texas’s runoff elections, 12 more states will be holding their […]
Americans Broadly Want The Senate To Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson To The Supreme Court
The confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are now over. And they were incredibly ugly. In advance of the hearings, my colleague Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux wrote that Jackson’s identity as a Black woman as well as her professional background as a former public defender meant that it was likely she’d be subjected to […]
More States Are Proposing Single-Payer Health Care. Why Aren’t They Succeeding?
The Democratic presidential primary might feel like a lifetime ago, but one important storyline in that race was health care — specifically single-payer health care, or the policy that the government should offer universal health insurance to everyone in the country. The nomination of now-President Biden, who opposed single-payer health care during the primary, has […]
Why Biden’s First State Of The Union Might Not Change Much
This year’s State of the Union will be — believe it or not — the first since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States. And unlike last year’s speech (which was technically a speech to a joint session of Congress, not a State of the Union), attendance will not be capped this year and […]
COVID-19 Isn’t Going Anywhere — And Americans Know It
The idea that Americans are tired of the pandemic has become conventional wisdom, with important policy implications. Democratic governors in blue states like New Jersey and California have rolled back mask mandates, citing the importance of “normalcy.” But is “normal” what Americans really expect? And what does “normal” even mean, anyway? A recent Monmouth University […]
Democracy Is On The Ballot In These 11 Secretary Of State And Attorney General Elections
The aftermath of the 2020 presidential election was probably most Americans’ introduction to Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who rebuffed then-President Donald Trump’s entreaties to “find 11,780 votes” that would allow him to carry the state. Same with Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general who filed a baseless lawsuit to get the Supreme […]