There is a line in the Declaration of Independence that every American learns but too few Americans remember: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Not from the consent of the party….
Most Americans can quote the beginning of the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,…
Americans today are increasingly polarized, and partisan news media plays a significant role in this division. Most major cable news outlets present content that blends reporting with opinion, designed to shape how viewers interpret events rather than simply inform them….
I was reviewing the first few posts I had written for this site when I realized something uncomfortable: I had done the very thing I am about to ask you not to do. I had stated opinions as though they…
I keep coming back to the same realization as I dig through the data: the numbers are never the surprising part. What surprises me — what genuinely stops me cold — is how clearly Americans see the problem and how…
If you have been following these dispatches, you know the pattern by now. We look at an issue. We look at the data. We look at what the founders actually said. And every single time, we find the same thing:…
I’ve been digging deeper into non-partisan polling data, trying to take the temperature of where Americans actually stand when you strip away the party labels. And here’s what surprised me: the numbers aren’t the shocking part. We agree on far…
