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History Repeats Itself: The Gender Voting Gap in America
A 39 percentage point difference. This was the eye-widening statistic that The New York Times reported in its August 2024 poll, finding that 18 to 29-year-old women preferred President Joe Biden by 28 points, whereas young men of this age supported President Donald Trump by 11 points.
Defending Big Data
Across America, Thanksgiving dinners have turned into sparring matches, and petty conflict often overshadows substantive policy discussion. Political polarization costs all of us: it poisons social relations, increases legislative gridlock, and drives elected officials to prioritize winning over representing their constituents’ interests.
The Headless Party: Inside the Democrats’ Search for Identity in the Age of Trump
The Democratic Party finds itself in a leadership vacuum. The 2024 presidential election was a devastating loss that brought Donald Trump back to the White House, Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress, and the Supreme Court solidly conservative.
The Politic Episode 11: Texas Democrats Fled the State to Avoid Redistricting—Where Does America Go From Here?
In August, Democrats in the Texas House fled the state to break quorum in a special session. For two weeks they stayed in Illinois, hoping to delay a redistricting motion put forth by House Republicans, which could gerrymander five seats in the midterm elections.
When Lies Go Viral: Meta’s Retreat From Fact-Checking
In 2012, Meta’s algorithm pushed hate speech that fueled the massacre of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. This content, including a widely shared video from prominent anti-Rohingya figure U Wirathu, inflamed discrimination and animosity against the already marginalized group.
The Cross at a Crossroads: Christianity’s Reckoning in Modern America
Ryan Burge spent decades at the pulpit of a church that had been standing since 1868. By 2025, it was gone.
Sound It Out: How Phonics Won America’s Reading Wars
Adrienne Gear’s early days as a teacher brought an unforeseen challenge: despite her dedication, she was failing in her most critical responsibility—teaching her young students to read.
Latino History in Washington: The Push for the National Museum of the American Latino
Hinojosa feels that the negative reaction to ¡Presente! had more to do with politics than the content of the exhibit: “I think what was really frustrating is that you had a lot of people with zero experience that were not very qualified to make these kinds of assessments, basing their assessments based strictly on the political climate that we’re currently in.”