Some Black voters have gravitated away from the Democrats in recent years, but will Kamala Harris be able to pull them back? But in May, a Pew Research poll of Black voters found that only 77 percent indicated that they would choose Biden over Republican nominee Donald Trump for president in this year’s elections. From the mid-20th century onwards, support …
On this week’s episode of The Waves, the next presidential election is one year away and we are entering a storm of macho man politics. Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth is joined by NPR politics reporter Danielle Kurtzleben to talk about why men keep talking about their manly-men bonafides, how that affects women trying to be in politics, and more. …
Editor’s Note: Brad Snyder is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and the author of a forthcoming biography of Felix Frankfurter, “Democratic Justice”. Brad Snyder Courtesy Brent Futrell Since then, liberals have engaged in a constitutional strategy of getting to five justices – tailoring their arguments to the court’s “swing” justice – whether it was Potter Stewart, …
Dubbing the day as the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day of Rage’, protestors smashed windows at the Oregon Historical Society and damaged a quilt sewn by 15 Black women in the 1970s Portland: Protesters in Portland overturned statues of former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln and vandalised the Oregon Historical Society in a declaration of “rage” toward Columbus Day. Protest organisers …
California Sen. Kamala Harris embraces presidential candidate Joe Biden after she endorsed him at a rally March 9. It comes from the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, and is titled “A True New Deal: Building an Inclusive Economy in the COVID-19 Era.” “We think the New Deal provides inspiration and in some …